I had a disagreement with my colleague Tom Kilian recently. I said that +1 swords were boring. In almost all of my previous  D&D games,...

This blog post is about an alternate magic system for the Lord of the Rings Adventure Game. The magic system is derived from the Rogue-like ...

Cats give you a brainworm that makes you love them. How else do you explain letting a little yelling claw monster into your house? Just look...

These two books are the best RPG gazetteers that I know of.  Example 1: Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle (Here's my attempt to...

My favorite RPG rules are written in naturalistic language .  What do I mean by this? Well, the easier it is to speak in-character about an ...

On January 1st, 2022, I tweeted this twit: This proved to be somewhat ambitious. So let's talk about what happened in 2022 and what'...

For Christmas this year, Sean McCoy has given me a community project to be excited about: dungeon23 . There are a lot of people compiling re...