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Godzilla The RPG - Impressive First Impressions - Today I returned from PAX Unplugged with two systems sticking out in my mind among the priceless revelry, the exciting zine swapping, the enthralling gam...
6 hours ago
False Machine

False Machine Christmas Discount! - Orders to the U.S. are back up (and have been for a while. I originally intended this to be a discount for Americans only (as everyone else in the world ha...
1 day ago
Rise Up Comus

Why the Castle Automatic is doing a preorder campaign instead of a Kickstarter - In case you missed it, I just launched a pre-order campaign for my upcoming 100+ room, 5 level dungeon *The Castle Automatic*. *Click to become an Early ...
1 day ago
Pointless Monument

Mothership Campaign Framework 2: Shore Leave & Scarcity - You’re light years away from home, your vaccsuit is torn up and covered in the multi-coloured blood of an unknown horror… and the vending machine has an ...
2 days ago
Indie Game Reading Club

The Pretty Good Dark - I’ve been running a huge table – seven players! – of Free League’s new edition of Coriolis. Coriolis: The Great Dark is good, it’s fine. It’s a more focuse...
4 days ago
Explorers Design

Dare to Play it Straight - The rarest tabletop genre is also the simplest one. A call for more anti-mashups.
5 days ago
Traverse Fantasy

Translating Λόγος - There’s an idiom by which evangelicals refer to the Bible, namely the “Word of Gxd”, and they will read bits of the Bible referring to the *Logos* as bei...
5 days ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

CHAPTER SERF - *CHAPTER SERF* is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the ...
6 days ago
Mindstorm

Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs - Location-based adventures have a lot going for them. They’re naturally quite atomic in scale, in that each “room” exists mostly on its own, and the GM ru...
1 week ago
All Dead Generations

Dungeon Design Note: Obstacles Support Exploration - Less Combat ... More Obstacles I’ve been talking about dungeon crawling as a play style here for years, and I’m not alone among RPG bloggers to do so. M...
1 week ago
Knight at the Opera

Happy Birthday Knight at the Opera: 6 Years of Blogging - I started this blog 6 years ago. Here was the last retrospective. It contains the origin story and some badly-aged advice. In the time since then, A Knight...
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf - I love pretending to be an elf just as much as the next guy, but it pales in comparison to the joys of pretending to be a mouse with a sewing needle sword ...
1 week ago
Weird Wonder

A yawn from the void - Today is a grab bag. I am finishing up my next adventure and preparing to run a minimum viable version of it at PAX Unplugged. I am tempted to make my ow...
2 weeks ago
The Soloist

🤖 Sci-Fi Special Issue 2025 - Notorious and Arathi Sector Previews, 9 Reader Recommendations, and more!
2 weeks ago
Sam Sorensen

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Starting on October 14th, as a part of *Mothership* Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for *Mothership,*...
1 month ago
Roll to Doubt

The Sunsetters Agents – Retrospective on Delta Green - Havoc, our Handler for a Delta Green campaign (my first play report of it is here), is a passive-aggressive little bitch about the lack of play reports. He...
2 months ago
Was it Likely?

the neurological event of the decade!!!! - the absolute homie oldhawkeye unwisely encouraged me to moviepost so here are some movies you should see ive grouped them into categories so u know which on...
2 months ago
Goblin Punch

Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...
3 months ago
Hendrik Biweekly

Game mechanics as demands, refusals, requests, encouragements, discouragements and allowances - My brother texted me, and said: ‘Is it common in rpg discussions to look at rules as *affordances*?’ That might sound odd or surprising to you—or just pla...
3 months ago
Technical Grimoire

The One Ring TTRPG: Fear of Tolkien - This is a review of the One Ring TTRPG by Free League publishing. It is also a chronicle of my descent into Middle Earth and far longer than it needs to be...
4 months ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

tricks taught: risk, thought, and the Marxist (un)truth of myth in Sukumaland - *a matched pair of mabindas (Sukuma articulated dance figures) on a performance cord* “*For revolutionary consciousness is subjective consciousness...
6 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun! - Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the unfathoma...
7 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Oneironaut Launches! Downtime in Zyan is back in print! - There are two pieces of big news I want to shared with you. The first is that I have launched the first installment of my new physical zine for my Patreo...
8 months ago
Sachagoat

BLOGGIES 2024 Concludes! - The Bloggies 2024 have come to a close, and what an incredible celebration of TTRPG blogging it has been! A phenomenal range of talent, creativity, and p...
9 months ago
Bones of Contention

Folie à Trois: Trophy Gold - Below is a shared review of *Trophy Gold (2022)*, a fantasy adventure game designed by Jesse Ross and published by The Gauntlet. Although it is informed ...
2 years ago
Failure Tolerated

The First Line of Every Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - “ONCE UPON A TIME, long, long ago there was a little group known as the Castle and Crusade Society.” *– Dungeons & Dragons (1974), “Foreward” (sic)* “Pla...
3 years ago
Permanent Cranial Damage

Carrion - *Carrion is the endless city. Time began in* *Carrion, and in Carrion shall it end.* *When the world was new, the Hornèd* *Mother's child, the demiurge Cann...
7 years ago

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