campaign masterpost See the session summary eventually by Sticks here, and my session preview here Remaining dwarves: 95 The aftermath Chainmail was fun! I made up or guessed...

Between June 1st and September 1st I had the good fortune to experience 120 hours of roleplaying games! Only 10% of that time was spent as a player versus as a GM. It was a...

A witch knows how to petition the old gods. Such knowledge leaves debts.

See the companion post about procedures here. This is a quick play report to go along with my other post about combining the AD&D 1E Appendix A with OSE for a solo dungeon...

Long overdo for the Scribbles and Horrors blog is a detailed writeup of Redux timekeeping. Unfortunately, this will continue to wait until I can find time to write it...

What would be on your list? We’re talking about movies and TV shows here.  And if you already wanna know if your movie/show made my list, just jump down a bit. But first some...

Part sixteen, adapting the B/X spell list to Whitehack. Magic-User/Elf, 3rd level into Cleric, 3rd level. I think I’m keeping at this out of pure stubbornness. At a quick...

I think fantasy political ideologies should be hard to map onto real world political ideologies. This is inspired by Disco Elysium and Esoteric Ebb, both very very very good...

We played the twenty-third session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was...

The menu of potential campaigns I offered my in-person group.

A Dungeon God for October. The term "thief" is intended in a broader, non-classed sense. Any character may gain the blessing of the Gaolcat, provided they are one who...

Guidelines for creating playable Pokemon (essentially classes) for Into the Oddish.

Not Dead...Yet...Related to this very long ago post, but demonstrates why blogging is peak when its just half-scribbled notes to yourself. Maybe also related to skeleton as...

Monthly jams, critique, theory, and resources for rpg designers.

STARTING IN THE CLOG You don't start in a tavern. Taverns imply surplus. Surplus implies sunshine. You start where the falling stops. The architecture of the oubliette is...

Forgot to push this to publish it sooner, apologies. The landers have some names now. The PC astronauts arrived on “Argo”. The PC cosmonauts arrived on a soviet lander, but the...

What is a Ruling you Regret or wish you would have handled differently?

Espers derive their abilities from the plane of consciousness, so the techniques they command most naturally affect consciousness itself. Indeed, espers of the first degree...

Sometimes we are mere victims to the power of nature, and can only struggle to preserve our lives.

Another one for the Bestiary, this one with a Mothership stat block. Thanks to onslaught six for helping me edit this one! Miasmic fogOn the coldest autumn nights, a strange...

For whatever reason, you’re considering using baseball cards as game pieces. Maybe you’re thinking about the Baseball Jam ’26, or maybe you’re just thinking about trading cards...

Normally I’m bad at earnestly acknowledging that a thing I made is good, and would rather point to my next idea and talk about how that’s going to be better. Mythic flipped...

I ran a three-month campaign of Veins of the Earth, which to my understanding makes me one of the select few who actually attempted to run that beast of a book! Unfortunately,...

Before he met his tragic end, Vørpé the Magic-User suffered just about every negative non-death setback a PC in my campaign could experience. I use death and dismemberment...

A repost from my old Patreon So in hexcrawl or "west marches" type games you are supposed to make it back to a safe area by the end of the game session so that next week you...

Brought to you by Peter Elbow. I'm deep in revisions for Triangle U and working through some thoughts on what makes a great Anomaly for play. I share those with you now! An...

You are a living relic, the remnant of an ancient civilization long since vanished.

Listen to this episode here. Further reading Back Tower Runners on Kickstarter! DrachenFest Incantrix Productions Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells Socials Caro’s website Sam on Bluesky and...

Goddess of Victory: Nikke is one of my favorite games of all time. It's also a mammoth work of writing, and it can be daunting trying to figure out which events and side...

 Floor 2: Venus - Not My Destination Index - Floor 4: Jupiter  Random Encounters 1d4 Star-Spirit Servants.Ice Elemental, 4 HD, 5 AC, movement 9"/15" (flying), immune to...