Trace a line in the shape of a human body. Generally they are life-sized or slightly larger, but there is no firm rule. Compose its interior space with whatever you wish -...

This is probably the last of my rulesposts, following the intro, where I looked at the errors made in my first edition, a post on the new domain economy, a generator for...

George Frederic WattsTHE world and this—whatever other name men have chosen to designate the sky whose vaulted roof encircles the universe, is fitly believed to be a deity,...

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveller, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I could.A class for FIRMAMENT.It is a harsh...

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here. The series will, when necessary, go into detail on the development of my...

A review of an Electric Bastionland one-shot. Is Chris McDowall one of the funniest writers in TTRPGs?

A retrospective of my two-year Dolmenwood campaign, and why this is the best game. Fight me.

Reading into chess and other abstract games.

Listen to this episode here. My new game Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is still on Kickstarter! Check it out today. In honor of BABH, this month on Dice Exploder I'm covering...

I was watching the most recent Quinns Quest Reviews, covering Stonetop, when I was struck with the most important tidbit of wisdom I've yet heard in the RPG hobby at large....

Interesting links from about the interweb. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally...

this is a school of magic to be added to those introduced in Wonder & Wickedness and expanded in Marvels & Malisons PhantasmProject a convincing illusion of any person,...

When my kids were about 2 and 4 years old, a squirrel jumped onto the power transformer by our house.  It did not go well: the squirrel was blown off onto the road, power went...

Up front, I gotta say, we didn’t take nearly as many photos this time as we would have liked! We didn’t get to document booths or anything like that. But I swear, I have a good...

The Stat Sheet The Label The Details Date Played December 21, 2025 Adventure Naughty List System Orbital Blues GM Kati Player Count 3 My Role Referee Number of Sessions 1 With...

It's Definitely A Dragon Definitely A Dragon! is a tri-fold adventure for Flail written and illustrated by Mauricio Cordero of GNAW Guild. Rumor has it there's a dragon...

This week on the NSR Discord (which my readers should have noticed by now is the place I spend the most time online when engaging with ttrpg stuff), I stumbled upon a really...

Don’t read this if you’re playing in my game on Monday lol

I have been running Triangle Agency1 for the past year. This game requires Mission-focused prep: the players receive Missions from the Agency and then they perform those...

I AM ARIMA. I WRITE IN THE FIRST SEASON OF MY SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR. THIS SHOULD BE HEEDED. IN MY DAY OF NOTORIETY I WAS KNOWN AS THE STOUT AND THE SHARP. I WRITE HERE A MANUAL OF...

Dragons are really cool. They create a sense of fantastical wonder that I find hard to evoke with other creatures or places. I love introducing dragons in my roleplaying games,...

I've finally posted an updated version of my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! having accepted that it is a living document and that there will always be gaps whether because I'm...

A report and postmortem for the first session of my D&D 4th edition Hunters of Northmarch campaign.

Here's a quick post with some rambling updates.I released episode 8 of my solo actual play of Mythic Bastionland today. (You can find the links for subscribing here.) As I said...

     I'm a big fan of taking notes when playing video games, I'm the kind of pervert The Painscreek Killings was made for. Writing stuff down on a piece of paper helps make...

J is for Jungle. In a more sensible ordering system, this would have been near the beginning, but alphabetical order is where we’re at. Why the jungle? Why not the Arthurian...

Everyone has a homebrew ruleset, and everyone wants to show it to other people, or at slap it around until it's presentable. And a lot of people are interested in your fantasy...

When you no longer believe in metaphor, all that’s left is simulation. What happens when the sparkles of clever allusion grow dim, when resonance tends shallow, and the waters...

Welcome to Episode 43 of BREAK!!: The Wandering Trio where today the gang had a lovely tense conversation with the terror known as Skippi, solved problems via creative item...