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 …

RUINATION PILGRIMAGE is Donn Stroud's new role-playing game of wandering troubleshooters/troublemakers in a mediaeval setting a couple of steps sideways from ours, where angels and demons and saints are real and mostly deadly. It's a …

APRIL 26-28, 2024 Bloomington, MN, USA I’ll be attending DaveCon this weekend! The convention celebrates “all the Daves who were there at the beginning,” including Dave Megarry (designer of the Dungeon board game), David Wesley …

Every time we sit down to play a role-playing game, we build this layer cake, stacking each level upon the previous one: First we decide what our game is about. What are the themes. Then …

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 …

This is part 8 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted part 7 a few weeks back, and if you want to start from the beginning here’s part 1. If you want to …

Driving their damaged vehicle down from the plateau, Contra-Disward towards the banks of the Styx, the Levellers soon spotted what they’d been looking for. At the bottom of a steep incline, run aground on a …

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 …

"The House of Stars became the House of Spiders". That's the line from Tanis's secret journal that the heroes managed to decipher. And the druidess really, really wanted more spiders. Which is how the elf, …

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 …

This is a community submitted press release. Roll20, the leading provider of online tools for playing tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs), is excited to announce the launch of its app in beta on Discord, the voice, …

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 …

Some friends were discussing how one might approach making RPGs play a bit more like skirmish war games. From my perspective, playing with minis and measuring distances are the only ingredients you need in order …

I thought I would try an experiment: I re-scaled one of Bergman's 1:100 Char B-I (bis) models to 1:200 and printed it on my Mars Pro. It's the yellow one in the middle.The one at …

Over the past couple of months I've written articles defining adventure types – how we prep them, how we run them, what pitfalls we might run into, and how to mitigate those pitfalls. These articles …