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Mammon in the Executive Suite, or: meaningful suboptimal play - Together with “Play to Lose”, “Play to Win” has seen an interesting uptick in the last couple of years. I first encountered the phrases in Jesse Ross’ dun...
7 hours ago
Roll to Doubt

Why Blogging? - Looking at my backlog, it strikes me: many of the posts are just bad. They have been better recently, but the backlog is mostly terrible. What it means to ...
17 hours ago
All Dead Generations

Fear in a Handful of Dust - A Brief Barrow Fields Gazetteer *I was born on the Cidro. The City of Fountains, back during the war. Devil's pox and the proscriptions took most of my f...
1 day ago
Was it Likely?

give me less - give me less Oda Sønderland says the black hole of the eye pulls in the eternal light of a stage and that's a lot more than what I can say for most of u i...
1 day ago
False Machine

News - Weird Hope Engines - An art exhibition/presentation is happening and I will be there! Along with much art from the world of RPGs! Andrew Walter So if you want to come and see ...
1 day ago
Traverse Fantasy

Not a Med Student - With respect to my last blog, I want to clarify: I am not a medical student. I know *many* medical students, but I'm not one. I'm just nosy and vengeful....
2 days ago
Knight at the Opera

R&L: Unarmed Fighting - This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here. Most RPGs try to support a variety of playstyles. In a D&...
6 days ago
Rise Up Comus

Ten Staves of Wizardly Might - 1. Weirwood Staff Made of white weirwood, carved with a mournful face. On nights of the new moon, you can ask the GM about a past event. On nights of the f...
1 week ago
Explorers Design

The Explorateur: Issue #5 - Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
1 week ago
Goblin Punch

The Hungering Dark - Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you. Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Steal This Idea: Cardinal Sins - I want to play as a scheming priest amidst other scheming priests.
1 week ago
Fail Forward

Exhaustion, Beauty & Debriefs - Hey chat ~ I've been a little less active in pretty much all but my local spaces recently. Insurance bullshit, paired with house hunting, paired with mi...
2 weeks ago
The Soloist

🫥 10 Zine Month Games You Missed - Solo RPGs, collaborative worldbuilding games, and more!
2 weeks ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

THE PONTIANAK, IN FICTION - *THE PONTIANAK, IN FICTION* *The following is one of a pairs of essays I wrote as a Stretch Goal for **A PERFECT WIFE**.* *Pretty basic stuff for hantu af...
2 weeks ago
Mazirian's Garden

Becoming "Human" (Mothership Downtime) - Mothership has a wonderful character creation process, where a few random “flavor” rolls both convey a lot about the setting, as well as tantalizing sug...
2 weeks ago
Technical Grimoire

Why You Should Spend $50 on Fountain Pens - This presentation is for a friend’s Presentation Party. This was my presentation.
3 weeks ago
Weird Wonder

Opposed themes and natural tension - Amanda P. discusses dungeon design, specifically themes.
3 weeks ago
Indie Game Reading Club

We’re Number 2! - Posted on February 2, 2025 by Paul Beakley Phew! The Bloggies are over this year, and the winner was a piece from Explorer’s Design called The 1 HP Dragon....
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Pointless Monument

Stepping out of the Spotlight, and other Roleplaying Improv Tips - Only one of these is an actual acting tip, and even that is about making it less work for you. Around 10-15 years ago I did improv once or twice a week f...
5 weeks ago
Failure Tolerated

Writing rooms in pairs - When you’re working on a key for a dungeon or other location, it can be difficult to come up with all the concepts you need to round the place out. One t...
1 month ago
Mindstorm

Baseline Worldbuilding - Forgive me, but I must post theory. I want to talk about worldbuilding, cognitive load, and the narrative baseline. Let’s first work to define what the n...
2 months ago
Sam Sorensen

Ten Tangible Tips For Editing Your RPG Manuscript - 1. Remove instances of “to be” verbs: *be, am, is, are, was, were, being,* and *been.* Instead of “The goblin is dancing,” write “The gob...
5 months ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

craft before craft — DIY RPGs and the meaning of a literary idea - *cool engraver guy on a 47 Workshop letterhead * *Let there be the clack of the shuttle flying* * forward and back, forward and* * ...
8 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Housekeeping 2024 - Coactus Illustration © Heather Gwinn. A gift she gave me in 2013 for an edition of Miscreated Creatures which I hope exists someday. Coloring by me. I am a...
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 ...
1 year 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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