I’m a bit more comfortable with philosophy than I am with game design. One thing I’ve found though is that having a philosophical position ...

I’ve been looking at ways to better ground magic in the game world. This is against it being an abstract power that turns the world into a ...

There is a scene that sticks with me from childhood from the D&D cartoon series. Dungeon Master (the little bald dude) is teaching the ...

This blog talks a lot about prioritising the game world in RPGs. This is partly about the world ‘pushing back’, in limiting the character’s...

This is the second of two posts looking at character advancement in D&D. I previously argued that D&D takes a character-centric app...

This blog talks a lot about materialism in role playing games, but I’ve not covered where these ideas come from. Before I got back into RPG...

I’ve recently been taking a harder look at some enduring features of D&D that can be traced back to game’s original edition (OD&D). ...

Taking a closer look at the Chainmail game has led me to place some long-standing features of D&D under the microscope. Chainmail as ...

I’ve previously mentioned my goal to run a materialist RPG campaign. I’ve argued that Old School gaming (the OSR) seems aligned with materia...

My previous post argued that the rule system of 5e D&D seems to encourage certain dramatic principles in its gameplay. I referred to th...

My previous post looked at how a certain approach to roleplaying games, that typical of the OSR, has seemed to align itself with a philosoph...

In my previous blog post, I talked about Into the Odd (ItO) as a basic materialist RPG. ItO emerged from a revival of interest in “Old Scho...

I’ve recently been looking through the old edition of the role playing game Into the Odd (ItO). There is a Kickstarter for a shiny new edit...