Doom Clock
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Overloaded Encounter Die with a fiery rebuke!
Illusory Sensorium
Illusions & Delusions - Part 1
I'm hosting the RPG Blog Carnival for February, and I lay the groundwork for my nominated topic of Illusions & Delusions.
B3 Palace of the Soused Prince
When against all odds and reason, a cunning plan to ignore the dying king for several sessions all comes together.
D5 Eternal Love is All You Need
Gate-crash an eternal faerie wedding party and make off like bandits.
World Building for Wetware
What can we learn from computer science and games, and back port to our own LTS 1.0 wetware?
D4 Half the World Away
A circuitous trip back to Lankshorn, ending where they started, a little older but none the wiser.
B2 Keep Off the Borderlands
Blacked out by 19 bong O'clock and the modulo arithmetic of sobriety dice.
D2-3 Sir Cheese & Chyde
Don't keep the hounds from the door, and offer yourself to the wolf with the red roses.
B1 Wand of Embiggening
The bad wrong fun of playing Barkeep on the Borderlands by almost none of the rules.
D1 Tea for the Teapotman
Journaling a new Dolmenwood campaign, and reflections on starting with momentum and challenging characters.
New Years & New Worlds
Triple threat: a New Year's resolution mechanic, synchronous world-building challenges, and #GoodHuman24
Advancement Wars
Does campaign play necessitate character advancement, and are Oddlikes really at a disadvantage?
Heartbroken Delicacies
The fantasy heartbreaker as a term has been thoroughly reclaimed by intrepid creators who just want to put some of their skin into the game. I have an unreasonable fondness for these endeavours, drawn by their modest glimmers, and pin them in my gaming folder of shame. Akin to insecta
Affordance & Simplification
How can we simplify task design by leveraging natural affordances?
The End is Nigh
How Deathmatch Island and The Silt Verses RPG play with endings.
Triple-A Games
Most games don't want to be played. So what does it take to rise above the ranks?