D2-3 Sir Cheese & Chyde
Don't keep the hounds from the door, and offer yourself to the wolf with the red roses.
Illusory Sensorium
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?
Journey Scenes, Not Rules
We don't ask dungeon crawling procedures to do the heavy lifting for creativity, so why should journeys?
MLM Canon
Graph theory, flippant orthodoxy, and lighting the beacons.
Pure Imagination
Hold your breath, make a wish, count to three.
War Never Changes
The matter of how best we play our own Little Wars around the game table has completed innumerable revolutions throughout the history of the hobby.
I Am Not a Number
A small child barely waist-high and clad in sooted rags proffers you an unremarkable river stone, begging a "mere glint" of 1 gold piece for their lucky stone (HP 1, stats as goblin).
Vainglorious Verisimilitude
Of the infinitely divergent imaginable realities, why choose a staid simulacrum of our own, but with elves?
Functional Design
Roll with the questions is fire, leading to the secret sauce of modular old-fashioned adventure gaming!