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

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.

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.

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

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, has shifted over the years.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My understanding of believability in roleplaying games, particularly with regard to violence, has 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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