Low-Stress Community-Building

Throwing people together into a game is not always the best way to build a gaming community. Socializing in a no-pressure environment is a great alternative.

Stretching A Licensed Setting

How your campaign interacts with canon is important, but there are other ways to think about licensed settings.

Post-Apocalypse Verisimilitude

Before you build out plans for your post-apocalyptic campaign, think about what you want from it.

The Individual v. The Collective

What does a player character do when they have to choose between what is right and what is expected of them?

A Review of the GODS TTRPG

Arkhane Asylum's GODS follows a path less taken.

Stoicism & The Art of Gamemastering

The Stoic philosophers have something to say about players destroying the best-laid plans of gamemasters.

Choosing A Published Campaign Setting

It can be easy to get excited about a new published setting, but it pays to evaluate it before bringing it to the table.

What is Setting First?

There is no One True Way to play tabletop RPGs, but Setting First is oriented around three particular approaches to play.

Overview of a Long Campaign

Eighty-two sessions into a Degenesis campaign, I reflect on how I’ve run the game so far, what my players and I have learned, and what the game has given us.

After Play Review: Paleomythic

Paleomythic combines tight, elegant mechanics, clever character differentiation, and just enough but not too much worldbuilding.

On the Arcane Nature of Tabletop RPG Books

Why is it that there is no moral panic about computer RPGs in the way that there was in the early days of tabletop roleplaying?

Games Without Frontiers: Running A Long-Distance FRP Campaign

Before the Internet gave us the pleasure and torture of instant connectivity, I ran many an adventure with the help of the US Postal Service.