Blogs about Role-playing games

As usual, I wanted a Skaven class for LotFP, as I have a ton of Skaven miniatures. This allows players to pick a Skaven PC, or create leveled Skaven NPCs if you so wish.Class features:High …

The BBC released the first two episodes of the new series of Doctor Who on Saturday and I very much enjoyed both, although I'm not blind to their faults. It's a bold and confident new …

Q: What do you think about prepping and running Swords & Sorcery adventures? Unlike “science fiction” or “fantasy” or “alternate history,” for which you can make pretty solid definitions, “sword & sorcery” is kind of …

This is about games, trust me. The poem “Fears and Scruples” by Browning foretells Kafka’s work, but our reading of Kafka perceptibly sharpens and deflects our reading of the poem. Browning did not read it …

What with the new 2024 revisions due to start being released this coming September, I am converting my online game to D&D 5th edition.I still have to end the multiverse in an upcoming session in …

This capsule review will have spoilers.Here's some boring facts about the book up front to avoid diving right into the spoilers. The Curious Conundrum of the Conflagrated Condottiero (henceforth referred to as "4C" for the …

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 stretch goals wrong (you are), you’ll overburden your project …

I’ve not been blogging much lately as I’ve been following the invasion of Ukraine by the genocidal regime in Russia. You can donate to a reputable aid charity to help Ukraine here (LINK). So, to …

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Paul Beakley I’ve been slowly working through a big stack of really great looking little zine-sized games that all arrived at once. Finally got to play my buddy Keith …

Dear Diary, Hello! It is me, Lulu! Reya has hurt her hand a little when a Big Special Boat went very very fast (I will tell you about that soon!). It was her turn to …

Vargouilles flit indiscriminately from victim to victim and spreading their curse far and wide. Vargouille reflections are much the same, with the key difference that they spread their curse not by kissing their victims but …

The Hex Garden Encounters Three inductees in vivid butterfly robes, gardening. Brilliant, giant butterfly, fluttering above the chapel. Hex Priest. Two furred, swift, small humanoids, stealing figs. Giant caterpillar, feeding on the nearest green leaf. …

There are gates? They fell? wtf?If you follow Warhammer 40k stuff (which I do a little because I'm running this), then you know that their crazed hatemob issue for the last few years is female …

We're still stuck in Spidernesti, so this is what I mean when talking about "land". What is the deal with my cleric's religion?Kiri-Jolith is a good god of war. Kind of Athena, only male and …

Despite all the media attention Seraph Moore has had over the past four months, he is now barely recognisable from his headshot sent to me by his media team. The give away as I take …

I’ve made a bit of a running gag on this site for my sign offs to include something like “Until I’m not, Rowan Zeoli.” While one, it’s a good bit, it’s also a recognition that …

We're almost out of 2023!This year has been the 30th Anniversary of Risus: The Anything RPG, the 20th Anniversary of The Risus Companion, and the 10th Anniversary of Risus 2nd Edition.As I write this, we're …

Alone in the Labyrinth talk about their solo campaging of Gangs of Titan City. I’ve had the game city on my bookshelf for some time now. I still hope to get it to the table …

I've been revisiting a bunch of my interwar vehicle models, rescaling them to 1:285 for micro gaming, and I've put them up on wargaming3d.com in packs of six to eight models.This first one is British: …

The term 5e defines compatibility between the products of hundreds of publishers and the 2014 version of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game – known as 5th edition D&D. In early 2023, Wizards of …