A look at how to enhance the narrative impact of character deaths in Dungeons and Dragons, though house rules and alternate TTRPG systems.

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

The OSR space has discussed the importance of framing interesting combats. It has not done the same amount of work to provide concrete advic...

A question: you ever try to run a campaign with a city in it? Not just a town or settlement or fort, but a proper city, one with an actual street

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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...

Combat as puzzles. A hack on the 16 HP dragon from Dungeon World.