Jon Peterson’s book The Elusive Shift captures some of the discussions around campaign creation that took place in the early days of the ho...

The Gygax ’75 challenge is a quick-start method to get a campaign running from scratch, based on Gary Gygax’s famous 1975 article . The ch...

Travis Miller at Grumpy Wizard recently posted a summary of his article for the Gary’s Appendix II zine on Gary Gygax's principles for...

A recent Questing Beast video has drawn a line in sand with respect to WOTC’s One Game Licence. A colloquial folk conception of D&D is...

I’ve been catching up online with the early 2000s UK TV series The Worst Jobs in History . It’s been useful inspiration for coming up with ...

It seems a good idea for the first step of character creation to set the tone for what an RPG is about. In my game, I’ve made this a weird ...

This post is going to talk about RPG sandbox design. Sandboxes often have themes that makes them more than just a collection of disparate e...

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...