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.

A short and sweet review of a starter adventure for Mausritter.

I love pretending to be an elf just as much as the next guy, but it pales in comparison to the joys of pretending to be a mouse with a sewing needle sword at my side.

A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has all the information you need to know to participate!

Embracing the silly origins of skeletons and why it makes them one of the more refreshing undead horrors to use in your games.

Lycanthropy is played out. Instead of using another werewolf in your game, try some weregilt.

Reviewing one of the earliest adventures for 5th Edition D&D: how I would improve player agency and how my proposed fixes grind up against the play culture of 5e.

I present a cheat code for breaking through writer’s block and coming up with a gameable idea from all the cultural detritus that has built up inside your brain.

An example for our I prepared to run a (great) published adventure.

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

You are stranded on a hostile planet, but fortunately its subterranean tunnels are rich with the fuel you need to get back home. Less fortunately the tunnels are also home to hulking monsters that can break into your ship and drink its fuel.

It says something about your game’s setting if orcs can be killed on sight by “good” characters just as it says something entirely different if you can wantonly slay bandits without remorse. I detail lots of different potential targets for violence and what they might say about a given campaign setting.

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

Instead of punishing being over-encumbered, would players be more willing to track their inventory if we rewarded being under-encumbered?

A roleplaying game about explaining what a roleplaying game is.

If you start from the premise that languages in D&D make sense you can extrapolate a bit about its implied setting.

If the best TTRPG writing has, for at least a decade, proliferated online (which it has), shouldn’t we start putting that writing where it belongs on our bookshelves?

I’ve spilt so much digital ink about making a wizard’s magic feel more arcane, but now it is time to think about how to make a cleric’s magic feel more divine.

Why the hell would you bring a baby into the dungeon? Here are some rules to adjudicate your foolhardy endeavor if your character is saddled with a bundle of joy and can’t afford a babysitter.

Ten Thousand Random Spells and How to Cast Them (in roleplaying games, of course).