GenCon: This IS My First Rodeo
Your intrepid reporter in the field presents the latest on-the-ground news from the first day of GenCon.
A LEGO Jam Retrospective: Trouble in Paradisa
In which I talk about how to write an adventure in a weekend and a method for connecting NPCs in a web of relationships.
Endangered in Dungeons
Oops, you hunted the random encounter to extinction. What comes next?
Between Two Jams
In which I implore your participation in two game jams this summer: the Lego RPG Setting Jam and the Barkeep Jam. I extol their virtues and cajole all creators to join in the fun.
Wizard Diss Tracks
Wizards are petty creatures, prone to getting into arcane beefs with their fellows. I present rules for wizards researching diss spells to further their beefs along with a d66 random table for origins of the beefs between wizards.
We Live Again
Rules for resurrection, soul transference, reincarnation, and cloning (in roleplaying games. If I knew how in real life, would I really be spending my time pretending to be an elf?)
Rehabilitating the To-Hit Roll
Musings on removing the damage roll and replacing it with the to-hit roll for use in games that are heavy on looting enemies.
Overloading the Random Encounter Table
A all-in-one roll for random encounters, reaction, surprise, and distance.
Toybox Creativity: The Genius of Dragon Ball
What Akira Toriyama can teach you about creativity and worldbuilding.
Wizards Playing Telephone
Using a strange spell as a jumping off point for stranger worldbuilding.
Potion Clues
Advice for identifying the potions you find in dungeons, ideally before quaffing them.
Pedantic Wasteland - Vampire Cruise
A review of Vampire Cruise, a system-neutral comedy-horror adventure (originally published on Bones of Contention).
Schrödinger’s Chat 2: Amended & Restated Quantum Language Rules
Quantum language rules for TTRPGs, along with musing on language in games, in Mausritter, and more.
Blog Challenge: New (Year’s) Resolution Mechanic
I present a brand new resolution mechanic and challenge all bloggers to do the same!
I’ll include links to every blog that accepts my challenge.
My Weird Wizard Show
Soft-boiled rules for casting spells that is fast, flexible and fascinating.
In Defense of Ability Scores
Ability scores have become vestigial in modern corporate D&D and Pathfinder, but there is a different D&D lineage where they are evolving into an elegant mechanic.
The One-Shot Pubcrawl
Suggestions for running Barkeep on the Borderlands as a one-shot adventure, plus a new character background: Monarch’s Bastard.
Pedantic Wasteland - A Rasp of Sand
A review of A Rasp of Sand, a rogue-like TTRPG adventure for Knave (originally published on Bones of Contention).