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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 day ago
Knight at the Opera

Seven-Part Pact: Authority - Continuing my posts about *The Seven-Part Pact* (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss this game's approach to authority. ...
1 day ago
Traverse Fantasy

Common Sense: 250 Years Later - Digital version of my pamphlet on Itch! Investigating the historical context and legacy of Thomas Paine's *Common Sense*, written to proselytize radical ...
2 days ago
Was it Likely?

chipped dishes - it's time to check the mirror again jury's still out two weeks have passed since last we spoke. a fortnite, in the parlance of our youth. actually in the...
2 days ago
Roll to Doubt

Note-Taking in Investigation Games - So I’m a player in Havoc’s Delta Green campaign, until either my schedule makes it impossible, the campaign fizzles out as it goes or his showcase as a Han...
2 days ago
The Soloist

📜 The Inquiracle Index - A listing of TTRPG desginers' self-interviews from The Soloist's archives
3 days ago
Rise Up Comus

The Domesday Book: Josh reads the little brown books - The early history of D&D is pretty interesting. If you haven't yet, listen to When We Were Wizards. The dramas that play out in the "hobby with friends -...
3 days 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.
3 days ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Advantage by Default - Instead of punishing being over-encumbered, would players be more willing to track their inventory if we rewarded being under-encumbered?
4 days 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...
5 days 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.
1 week 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...
1 week 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 ...
1 week 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...
4 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...
5 weeks 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. ^———^ (...
5 weeks 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 ...
1 month 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
Technical Grimoire

Wildsea Campaign Log - Alongside our weekly Cairn campaign I’m also starting up a Wildsea Campaign! Every week(ish) I’ll update this post with a summary of our adventure.
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

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...
5 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 ...
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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