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Traverse Fantasy

Cinco: May 2026 - I've finally posted an updated version of my homebrew heartbreaker *Cinco!* having accepted that it is a living document and that there will always be gap...
2 days ago
False Machine

I Read Generators of Underground Worlds - Previously I asked my audience for examples of large-scale cave generation and, essentially, no-one had what I was looking for; I meant Nation Sized, unde...
3 days ago
Was it Likely?

the wood where the moon will be born - here's a place you can go, and here's the rules for when you get there Tove Jansson is my favorite artist and one of my favorite writers. Her work is the ...
5 days ago
Explorers Design

The Explorateur: Issue #19 - Monthly design jams, critique, theory, and inspiration for tabletop rpg designers by rpg designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Around the Blogosphere in 80 Days (Blogwagon Roundup) - A roundup of 50 blogs from the past few months that all focus on maps (including a few adventures that key off the same map).
1 week ago
Rise Up Comus

Framing a Kung Fu Campaign - I've long been a big fan of kung fu movies, but only recently started dabbling in the core texts by reading a translation of *The Legend of the Condor He...
1 week ago
Fail Forward

Mapping Noise - A Simple System for Informed Fog of War (Map Blogwagon) - This one is gonna be short because I'm once again being emotionally, physically, financially and temporally drained by teeth issues completely out of my ...
2 weeks ago
Mindstorm

My Favorite Map - Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a blogwagon, this time about maps, and I’ve got to land this hot air balloon before the deadline ...
2 weeks ago
Indie Game Reading Club

Buddhism in a Bottle - A couple months ago, I started using a GLP-1 for weight loss: Zepbound, specifically. One of the Temu Ozempics. I’ve fought my weight my entire life. As I ...
3 weeks ago
All Dead Generations

Every Angel is Terrifying... - Reskinning the Beholder *This is an attempt to reskin Dungeons & Dragons classic weird and terrifying monster the Beholder in a way that works for less ...
4 weeks ago
The Soloist

👥 Playing Solo RPG's Together - Plus New Solo Games, My Exploration of Old Morris Cave, and a SOLO BORG Playtest
4 weeks ago
Knight at the Opera

How to Talk About Difficulty - Artist credit: Jeffrey Hummel Gamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversation. It's mire...
5 weeks ago
Weird Wonder

I went to GaryCon 2026 - *and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet* Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked...
1 month ago
Sam Sorensen

Review: The Crooked Moon - In October 2021, the popular tabletop RPG actual play channel Legends of Avantris began releasing episodes of their “Edge of Midnight” *Dungeons & Dragon...
1 month ago
Pointless Monument

60 systems and 600 sessions. 3 years in the life of a TTRPG meetup. - *I found 436 people who wanted to play TTRPGs in-person near me. Here’s how I did it and the 10 tips I learned along the way.* The Motivation In late 20...
1 month ago
Papers and Pencils

Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...
1 month ago
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
2 months ago
Failure Tolerated

Talking to the Dungeon - Prepping dungeons is hard and while I’ve read a lot of great modules, I never seem to remember what I loved about them other than the vibe. So now, whene...
3 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Sacrament of the Minotaur - This is the first of a small series of posts which will be about how I am running Luke Gearing’s *Gradient Descent *in my Mothership home campaign. This ...
3 months ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Rings Of Reminder - It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been. I am still not over stuff t...
4 months ago
Hendrik Biweekly

In 2025 I played twenty-nine role-playing games - The year is almost over, and I didn't do a *lot* of blogging here, regrettably. Turns out I can't really juggle a day job, a crowdfunding campaign, and a ...
4 months ago
Technical Grimoire

TTRPGs That are Actually Fun to Prep - It’s helpful to find a media reviewer with clear preferences. If you know what that person likes, then their review is much more useful to you. “She hates ...
4 months 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...
7 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...
11 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...
1 year 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
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...
8 years ago

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