Tyranny of Wagons
Simplified expedition logistics for a more civilized fantasy adventure game.
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Dreams for Sale
Free as in beer and free as in speech games to fire your imagination gaming.
Dayagons are the Bestagons
An immodest rebuttal of the any-mile hex, for the map is not the territory, and time is a flat hexagon.
12d6 DTL
An algebraically quadruple-powered method of attribute generation, for the profusion of Xd6 roll-under games on your shelf of shame!
Illusions & Delusions - Part 2
From dark delights to flights of fancy, experience this incredible finale of a fugue month half-lived and less remembered.
I Want to Believe
Demystifying the art of persuasion, and practical tips for refereeing illusions and enchantments.
B4: The Lost Keep
A doubly-rigged election and the earth-shattering leavings of a Wurm.
Doom Clock
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Overloaded Encounter Die with a fiery rebuke!
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?
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!
Disco Elision
Exemplars for when fewer rules may enrich play, and the ritual slaughter of sacred cows.
Algebraic Design
When is game design like painting with acrylic or oil on canvas, and when is it akin to sculpting?