The Cover of Break. Art and layout by Grey Wizard. This is a bit of an unusual post, Gentle Reader. I don't typically set out to review TTRPG game syste...

is Négritude too on the nose? - Papa Ibra Tall's La semeuse d’étoiles "Added to this is the question of whether Africa serves merely as a mi...

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

Welcome to Gulch! A modern day starter town for RPGs.

A brief history of the OSR as an artistic movement and some thoughts on what comes after it.

Preface Wolves Upon the Coast is a “grand campaign” written by Luke Gearing—of Gradient Descent , Fever Swamp, Acid Death Fantasy , and ma...

Players see god in one of two ways: Vague source of magic, or high-level XP piñata. I propose a third: gameplay feature. Profane, no?

So a game has “procedures” but what does that mean? This post presents a basic definition for an aspect of TTRPGs that is garnering more and more critical attention.

Tabletop RPG rulebooks only serve to restrict and constrain us. So why is that a good thing?

The system of downtime actions I created is individual by design, built as a counterbalance to OSR games where the action is focused relent...

So, here’s the thing: originally I wrote this like a fucking research article with a hypothesis, a methodology, and all that stuff. I’m not...