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Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

The Eclipse Phase setting can prompt thoughtful gamers to explore their assumptions about political, social, and economic structures in a context of wild adventure.

There’s a reason tabletop RPG settings that offer a breadth of possibilities are so popular.

The new Twilight: 2000 seems to be tailor made for me, but I do wonder when I’ll get to run it.

My understanding of believability in roleplaying games, particularly with regard to violence, have shifted over the years.

How to not pick a game system that fits your favorite setting, and how to do it right.

Why are we drawn to play tabletop RPGs, what can we learn from Guillermo Del Toro, and how do roleplaying games boost our mental health?

There’s a reason tabletop RPG settings that offer a breadth of possibilities are so popular.

Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

There’s a reason tabletop RPG settings that offer a breadth of possibilities are so popular.

Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

There’s a reason tabletop RPG settings that offer a breadth of possibilities are so popular.

My understanding of believability in roleplaying games, particularly with regard to violence, have shifted over the years.

There’s a reason tabletop RPG settings that offer a breadth of possibilities are so popular.

Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

Just like our world, a tabletop RPG campaign won’t feel real without a few absurdities.

Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

Why are we drawn to play tabletop RPGs, what can we learn from Guillermo Del Toro, and how do roleplaying games boost our mental health?

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?

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.

There’s a reason tabletop RPG settings that offer a breadth of possibilities are so popular.

How to not pick a game system that fits your favorite setting, and how to do it right.

How to not pick a game system that fits your favorite setting, and how to do it right.

How to not pick a game system that fits your favorite setting, and how to do it right.

On the benefits of making room in my life for tabletop roleplaying by eliminating something else.

My understanding of believability in roleplaying games, particularly with regard to violence, have shifted over the years.

My understanding of believability in roleplaying games, particularly with regard to violence, have shifted over the years.

My understanding of believability in roleplaying games, particularly with regard to violence, have shifted over the years.

My understanding of believability in roleplaying games, particularly with regard to violence, have shifted over the years.

Why are we drawn to play tabletop RPGs, what can we learn from Guillermo Del Toro, and how do roleplaying games boost our mental health?

Why are we drawn to play tabletop RPGs, what can we learn from Guillermo Del Toro, and how do roleplaying games boost our mental health?

Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

Posts on TTRPG worldbuilding, managing campaigns, running sessions, and thoughts on tabletop roleplaying as a hobby.

Give me a subjective review based on actual play, not another faux-objective review based on just reading the rules.

As GMs and players, we can use status to inform the creation of NPCs and PCs.

There are some things a human artist can provide that AI tools just can’t match.

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