W. F. Smith 1/14/26 W. F. Smith 1/14/26

Playtest Early, Playtest Often

To design a game, you have to break a few eggs and discard some rules or completely rewrite them. But you won’t know what to discard and what to rewrite until you feed those eggs to your players.

W. F. Smith 12/2/25 W. F. Smith 12/2/25

PAX Unplugged: How to Cram A Month’s Worth of Gaming Into One Weekend

I played Seven Party Pact, Paranoia, Planet of the Apes RPG, Monty Python RPG, Break!!, Barkeep on the Borderlands, and Escape from Atlantis and am reporting those experiences to you from a wholly neutral and accurate perspective.

W. F. Smith 8/5/25 W. F. Smith 8/5/25

AI and Empty Art

On the perils of artificial intelligence when it comes to the tabletop gaming medium.

W. F. Smith 7/11/25 W. F. Smith 7/11/25

Ennies Good?? Also, by Total Coincidence, I Am Nominated for Some

Look, I’m just as surprised and delighted as I’m sure you are.