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Late anaphase of mitosis (sciencephototlibrary) I hate when I write a thoughtful response on Reddit and not this blog. So here it is repeate...

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.

Who's ready for another stupidly long post? That's the spirit! The "Skill Challenge" is an interesting type of generalist gameplay procedure...

First up, a brief announcement: the kickstarter for Knock! issue three has now gone live, packed with material from the old-school blogosphe...

Click Here for 'Basic Edition' Is the OSR dead yet? If you asked a couple of my friends, they would say yes: there was a body of cultural kn...

Take a calm, pleasant moment to think about your most cherished piece of media: The magical movie, bewitching book, scary song, terrifying t...

Like virtually everybody else in the TTRPG space I downloaded One D&D’s playtest document to see what the fuss was.

The inaugural Bloggie Awards, recognizing some of the great blog posts of 2022.

THE COMING OF THE KING Being the Tale of the Road Leading to Pendragon BY THE TIME I started playing their games in 1982, Chaosium already h...

It was in there with the other zines, this mud brown booklet. Old Morris Cave: A Continuous Use Campsite in Mammoth Cave National Park, it said in a tidy...

I was hanging out with my friend Ènziramire who told me about a certain page from Kevin Crawford’s recent cyberpunk rulebook Cities Without...

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 for my own module de…

Blog sobre Glorantha, RuneQuest, HeroQuest y otros juegos de rol. También sobre Japón, libros y samuráis.

Ten years ago, Steven Soderbergh released an unusual cut of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark: he put the entire film in black and white,

Classic Fantasy

The doom metal roleplaying game with a masterclass layout.

Bad things come in at three; telework request denied

Hugh Cook’s Chronicle of a World of Darkness, Part 2 I return to you for the end of the tale. Hugh Cooks intended-sixty, planned-twenty,...

We just wrapped up a nice long campaign of Stonetop, Jeremy Strandberg’s Iron Age community RPG being published by Lampblack & Brimstone…someday. It’s been a work-in-progress for a lot of years now. It’s getting close! Stonetop is available as a preorder on Backerkit. You get immediate access to the PDFs. I have a lot to… Continue reading Deep Dive: Stonetop →

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Since I wrote this post, my friend Ava Islam reached out to Justin Alexander and engaged him in a productive conversation....

NEWS: This review is a finalist for this year’s bloggies! Go check out the other finalists, there’s some really good stuff this year!***This week on The Weeping Stag I have the honor of…

When you are shopping for a tabletop roleplaying game obsessive or D&D fan, most of the recommendations are for more TTRPG books or more dice, when they probably already have plenty. Here are 20 gift ideas that aren’t just more TTRPG books or dice!

With Swords & Wizardry returning home to Mythmere Games we have seen them publish a number of new books, including a new monster book tit...

This is a review of Mothership , the popular and widely-acclaimed sci-fi horror RPG by Sean McCoy and the folks at Tuesday Knight Games . It...

Dungeons and Dragons, TTRPGs, Retro Videogames, and other Nerdery

RPG Homebrew and Advice Inspired by History

This is where I dump my thoughts.

Wanderings in the dark of tabletop. Click to read Torchless, by Suarachán, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

Rethinking Game Design