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 …

I want to love this book. It's very handsome and well designed, and it's (mostly) exhaustive. It is in many ways, lovely. But. The lead writer isn't very good. He has an unfortunate tendency towards …

A solid supplement for the Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game. Dungeons & Dragons GMs may also want to check this one out. Review Originally Published December 28th, 2000 Usagi Yojimbo: Monsters! is, obviously, the monsters supplement …

When the night is dark and the future seems darker, sometimes the best thing you can do is spend time with people you care about and make beautiful things together. I have played not one …

(Ha, and why it's good none of the players read my blog.)(Northern Continent Detail by Zak S.)I had been intending to run Zak Smith's Cube World setting since Zak began to publish the installments back …

Herein lies the tale of our abrupt and terrifying end to Death Frost Doom. As if it could end any other way.When we last met with The Pillories, their halfling, Remi Knotwise, had crawled through …

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’m writing an adventure. I might even get round to publishing it one day! The adventure at the moment has quite a lot of NPC-NPC relationships going on, and I thought it might (initially) be …

RinCon is coming up in Tucson this weekend and I’m gonna run myself ragged catching up with games I’ve wanted to run but simply haven’t had time: Inevitable, an Arthurian-Western mashup about doomed knights holding …

[Taken From Tunwéya‘s notebooks:] The time we spent in the Modron outpost has proven extremely valuable, and – while I still need to review some of the information provided by The Historian in order to …

Off we go back in time to the land of Theros. Let’s kick it off with tritons, of which Mythic Odysseys contains two variations: the triton shorestalker and the triton master of waves. The post …

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. …

After many months of being like Oh man I gotta do that, my friend recently dug up the copy of Awful Green Things From Outer Space that he first played as a child--originally printed in …

I don't know if there's anything that can be added to what Kelvin posted. I can only repeat it.

I was thinking earlier today that I haven’t posted here in a while. I also have been thinking that I should worry less about publishing finished ideas, as I frequently tail off before that point. …

Like many roleplayers, I started out with Dungeons & Dragons. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m quite old as the internet reckons things, and I cut my teeth on Basic D&D back when such a thing …

Just learned this evening that my Mom has passed away.Not much to say right now. Lots to process. She was an exceptionally good person, a medical pro who cared about everyone.Not sure if I'll have …

This is an update to an earlier blog post I wrote on rules and OSR games, which was published in the zine Mixed Success, which you should also check out. Playing four sessions of Thor …

This is one of Roman Troyen's (PlanePrinter on Patreon) 1/200 scale designs, up-scaled to 1/144 and printed on my elderly Ender 3 in PLA.It's a Handley-Page Hampden, a British medium bomber of the early years …

For those of us who spend a lot of time thinking about improving our games, our minds often dive into the details. How can we speed up combat? How can we draw the characters deeper …