Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is my upcoming deckbuilder tabletop roleplaying game built for bloody revenge operas inside a tight-knit clique of professional assassins. Here’s a...

Inspired by listening to a bunch of Yellow Eyes lately, and also to some extent by the novel Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez. So far, only fragments of the Xanthic Codex...

It will come as no surprise that my game of space necromancer romance, ‘Til Death, came about as a reaction to reading the Locked Tomb novels. I liked the science-fantasy...

Who doesn’t love a great Hollow Earth story? It was a classic Moldvay setting besides! Who doesn’t love a secret society of outcasts and mutants deep in a sewer, subway, or...

"We'll stop here and finish it next session, no problem!"In my current megadungeon home game, we have not played for almost 4 months now because of a mistake I made. It's a...

tl;dr: a tale of recovering a piece of blogging community infrastructure from bad decisions and technology failure. Regular readers will have noted I flag the r/OSR blogroll as...

examples of revision to fit layout constraints

Idle thoughts while reading through a roleplaying game. This issue I flip through Tuesday Knight Games's new Fatherfog zine.

A Living Document of campaign notes on Taliesin's RuneQuest game

By Sabrina Hawthorne To begin - massive credit both to Julie Coker and Gabe for talking about this with me at length. This framework is as much theirs as it is mine - I'm just...

    One of my longer-running side projects has been going through the ENWorld Gary Gygax Q&A. It ran for several years, up to Gygax's passing, and is the source for a lot of...

I was reading the Fomoria quickstart by Tania Herrero last week and it's a vibe, looks lovely. If you like heavily-armored animal people and shades of red and orange you should...

Review and play report with likes and dislikes. Plus what I'd change for a second play-through.

Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn...

Honestly kind of a run of banger books these last few months. That’s good, because I’ve been cooped up with a persistent foot injury more or less the entire time. Giovanni’s...

As promised, a follow-up post on my house-rules for playing Mausritter with my elementary-age children, derived from negotiating with my kids over four sessions of our ongoing...

I consider three essential procedures in every TTRPG game: Hexcrawling, Dungeoncrawling and Settlements. Today we will have a closer look on the last one. Something I deferred...

This is a hack of 5th edition D&D, so where is the 5e D&D? In a round of combat the players can take one action, take one bonus action (if something grants it), move, and take...

Mythic Garden! Mythic! Mythic GME is how I've come to understand solo games. It was hard for me to really wrap my head around the large structures of solo play until I found...

Post-Typhoon Mini Review I'm making this post to keep up with my weekly review series but, Saipan, the island where I live, was struck by Super Typhoon Sinlaku this past week...

Here we have another hundred Magical Items, this time focusing on those Bracers and Bracelets that might be masquerading among the Jewelry in a hard-earned Hoard. My hope is...

"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope...

This is a post about a trinity of deities I've used to great effect in a recent campaign. I'll present some background information about the group, then describe each deity in...

This week's collection of discord discussions, blogs to read, projects to download and bookmark, and a poem!

A few fellow bloggers and I held a Work in Progress show-and-tell last weekend, and I was excited to talk through some of the development work that I had come through on...

The Straight DopeI love TTRPGs and I love running them. If you ask me if I need a break to be a player, I will almost always say no. I can’t imagine not wanting to run a game....

This post has been written as part of the Map Blogwagon. The game Blue Prince celebrated its one-year anniversary this month, and I found myself back inside the ever-changing...

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After some recent conversations with friends about various D&D editions, I thought it would be useful to compile a brief summary of different editions of the game. You could...