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 Acorn Afloats, and so I must answer, albeit a month later. PETER HOOK, aka PETER THE HOOK, aka HOOKY PETE, aka the SOUL FISHER: Armour 14 (as leather), Move 150’, 2* Hit Dice, 9hp, …

DISCUSSING In the Shadow of the Spire – Session 39A: Chamber of Bone Tee felt the ratlings throw their weight against the door, but she was able to hold it against their charge. Tee signaled …

Available for free download, right now, Follow: A New Fellowship The free New Fellowship edition includes all the rules you need to play and five of the quests from the main book: the Breakthough – …

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 …

The premise of Strict Time Records Must Be Kept is that the player characters have been dosed with a slow-acting, fatal poison while isolated in a trap-filled mansion, where they search for doses of antidote. …

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 …

Just some work updates: In the Heart of the Unknown – recently went platinum metal best seller on DriveThruRPG (following in the footsteps of my Hex Flower Cookbook) This is particularly pleasing because it’s Pay …

Note from Paul: This week we have guest writer Slade Stolar’s interview with long-time indie Notable Paul Czege. Czege has a Kickstarter for Inscapes, a zine sequel to The Ink That Bleeds, both about getting …

[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 …

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. …

I have a new art retrospective book coming out now available for pre-order. The price will jump in a few days, so if you're interested, best to grab one soon. It covers the last 20 …

So here's Zak's new book, collecting his artworks from 2000's and until today. Twenty years ago the Orange Revolution halted the totalitarian usurpation in Ukraine. Today things are quite horrible, but art is still art. …

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 …

In 1979, a teenager named James Dallas Egbert III disappeared from Michigan State University. He wrote what many consider to be a suicide note and disappeared after a Quaalude overdose, likely driven to drugs by …

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 …

Clayton takes a look at what elements make for a compelling cover, highlighting some of my own favourite books in the process. This post was likely sparked by Wizards of the Coast teasing the cover …

I've been tinkering with the estimable Mr. Bergman's 1:100 scale (15mm) Churchill Mk.IV model to make a Mk.VII.... almost.The front end of the track sponsons could do with some more work, but I think this …

The Kickstarter for my latest book, The City of Arches, begins August 6th! Sign up to be notified on the launch of this high-fantasy city sourcebook for Lazy GMs! The DM describes the environment. The …