Advice '23

In this blog series, I will dissect the spatial elements of wilderness environments and explore how tabletop-friendly prep and mechanics could be

One of the most unforgiveable things that mainstream D&D has ever done was to make Diplomacy a skill. Weapon skills and knowledge skills, su...

A way to break down searching into three choices with informed outcomes for each.

Been playing that Zelda game everyone’s on about, and rereading Dungeon Meshi ( trailer just came out for the tv version!) and thinking abo...

art: Mark Tedin One of the most frustrating questions for me to read is, "Is X-OSR system compatible with Y-OSR adventures?" or "Can I use B...

DES I GNING   FOR  DUNGEON 23 With my decision to work on Dungeon23 coincides my starting a public Crystal Frontier Campaign and being diss...

My opinions on elfgames are empirically correct.

Lesson #1: The cover is flipping you off. Hello there. There has been a lot of new blood injected into the OSR/NSR space recently. I'll leave the ho...

Even games have a voice. When you sit down and read a tabletop RPG, the game itself speaks to you. The choice you make around narration…

A dungeon room a day for all of 2023.

This post is based on a conversation I had with Ben L. in response to his recent post over on:  http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2023/07/...

This is going to be one of those posts where someone says how Game Mastering in RPG’s is basically a lot like part of their work experience in another field. I'll also get into the dangerous arena of providing GM advice. I’d like to tell you I’ll avoid cheesy reaches to fit the framework but make absolutely no guarantees.

Using the reaction roll as (almost) a universal resolution mechanic: sketch for animist skill system

Mystery scenarios are probably the second-most popular genre of gameplay in RPGs after dungeoncrawling. Despite this, quite frustratingly, m...

What if initiative was the only roll in a combat system? Less a question of "can I murder this horrible horse?" and more "can I murder it be...

The Shattered Coasts server sees a fair share of games. Some are via voice, some are slow-form play-by-post, and then there are the dreaded ...