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Roll to Doubt

Adventuring Companies and Patrons - Nothing complex here, just an observation. Adventure games of D&D ilk assume a wild west social organization, which means a capitalist social organization....
12 hours ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Ennies Good?? Also, by Total Coincidence, I Am Nominated for Some - Look, I’m just as surprised and delighted as I’m sure you are.
16 hours ago
Rise Up Comus

ENNIE nomination thank you! - I am flabbergasted (my ghast is flabbered) to have *His Majesty the Worm *nominated for a 2025 ENNIE award for both *Best Rules* and *Best Game*. I can t...
17 hours ago
Traverse Fantasy

Activity Rhythm - This isn't that interesting! Just noticed that I have a sort of schedule throughout the year: - *January & June:* Reading - *February to April:* Pr...
18 hours ago
The Soloist

🐭 Mausritter Meets Ironsworn, Citizen Sleeper Gets a Solo RPG - Plus 5 new Solo RPGs, The Inquiracle w/ Evlyn Moreau, game jams, summer sales, and more!
1 day ago
Was it Likely?

three wells in a stolen world - its a body of water glaugust we're all saying this. i've been swimming in the river of equity. from its bod untimely zipped The Eye of Dead Ouroboros Th...
3 days ago
Knight at the Opera

Broken Hearted - *"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot."* You have likely seen or been recommended t...
3 days 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...
6 days ago
Fail Forward

Everybody OSR - An Unwanted Analogy - *from godard's alphaville - just LOOK at that stark lighting* *Preface: *I've always believed more art is better. Art is how we communicate. Art is how w...
1 week ago
Explorers Design

How to Become an Ennies Judge - How to apply, what to expect, and everything else you need to know from one judge to another.
1 week ago
False Machine

Loopy Tombs - This poast was inspired partly by reading James Holloways 'Tome of Tombs' - a zine of Tomb creation which you can find here; https://james-holloway.itch...
1 week ago
Weird Wonder

There is a point to Tom Bombadil (or how I approach lore) - a very brief exploration of Tom Bombadil's role in Lord of the Rings and how it can be applied to adventure games.
2 weeks ago
Hendrik Biweekly

The best playtests probably aren't run by the designer of the game - News out of the dark! I don’t dare to check when I last send out a newsletter, but it’s been a while. What happened? Well, most importantly I started prep...
2 weeks ago
Pointless Monument

Making Alternate Mothership Classes - Generating playtest material for an existing game can often simply involve deriving the designer’s framework and then iterating on it. After a first run ...
2 weeks ago
All Dead Generations

Dungeon Design Note: Defining Interactivity - A lot of dungeon design advice focuses on “interactivity”, and to a degree this word can be a meaningless substitute for “stuff I personally like”. Yet o...
5 weeks ago
Indie Game Reading Club

Memento Mori: the Deep Dive - Everyone gets about 1000 months to live. This is a life changing realization I had a few years back. It hit me so hard that I wrote about it. It was a gaze...
1 month ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

!!! Somebody made fan art of my crocodile! Ahhh!!! - roveeeatsart: Made this for the crocodile, thought they deserved some fanart cause I love them so much and I couldn’t stop thinking about them. ^———^ (...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Sam Sorensen

Cataphracts Design Diary #2 - *Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on.* Since my first design diary entry, quite a few people have reached o...
1 month ago
Mindstorm

Biblically Inaccurate Religions - I tend to oscillate rapidly between projects I’m interested in, like some kind of misfiring neuron in an RPG-soaked braincell. Right now, I’m working on ...
2 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...
2 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...
3 months 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...
4 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...
5 months ago
Failure Tolerated

Stretch Goals Are Haggling - One of the biggest complaints new creators have is that they hate dealing with stretch goals. it’s a common customer complaint too, because if you do str...
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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