I’m only likely to review games that I get excited about on this blog. Discovering Helm made me scrap my next planned blog post and write ...

There are a few reasons this Brecht play stands out to me for a post on the connections between RPGs and theatre. Firstly, it’s an importan...

I’ve been catching up with posts on foreground growth at Bastionland.com . Foreground growth is an alternative take on character developmen...

Cairn is a game by Yochai Gal that takes some of the principles I like about Into the Odd (ItO) and cranks them up a notch. I've descr...

Someone may have solved the Soulslike TTRPG already. I might have missed it due to the sheer amount out of games out there (March seeing 2 ...

When I was at school, I wanted to be an archaeologist like Indiana Jones. Sadly, things didn’t quite work out that way. It turned out ther...

Half a year ago, Panic Pillow approached me with a suggestion for developing an idea in  one of my blog posts . I’d been talking about an ...

In previous posts, I have the habit of throwing in philosophical terms, some of which are overdue a better explanation. Materialism is a pr...

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...