W. F. Smith 6/21/22 W. F. Smith 6/21/22

What Even Is a “Procedure”?

So a game has “procedures” but what does that mean? This post presents a basic definition for an aspect of TTRPGs that is garnering more and more critical attention.

W. F. Smith 6/9/22 W. F. Smith 6/9/22

Tempus, Fudge It

Include time-tracking directly in your game’s procedures, and you will never have to fiddle with a calendar for your campaign every again.

W. F. Smith 4/26/22 W. F. Smith 4/26/22

Worldbuilding as a Team Sport

A procedure for building a starting scenario (and the seeds for building a world) for both referees and players at the start of a new campaign.

W. F. Smith 2/18/22 W. F. Smith 2/18/22

Your Taverns Need a Procedure

I propose a procedure for running TTRPG taverns less like a beginner’s improv class and more like the Mos Eisley Cantina. I also briefly describe the trend of “proceduralism” in the OSR and Post-OSR.

W. F. Smith 11/1/21 W. F. Smith 11/1/21

The Basic Procedure of the OSR

Most OSR and Post-OSR games run on a core, often unspoken procedure of questions and answers. This post interrogates ways this is similar (and dissimilar) from story games and synthesizes the approach.