This is not what I had planned for this week, but Tim B. decided to make a poll and I love polls. It was about "is this game NSR or OSR or neither", which means it was about...

I have been running a weekly 5e campaign through the fun pirate isles sandbox Secrets of the Black Crag (SoBC), by Chance Dudinack.  We are 23 sessions in, and I plan to write...

Skeletons! El Aprendiz de Nigromante is a tri-fold adventure for Espadas & Espectros by ellohir. The adventure is in Spanish, but is easily translated with online tools....

There’s no reason to support Wizards of the Coast anymore. So, Wizards of the Coast has an incredible new innovation in the world of role-playing games, and that innovation is...

View from the Plane (2024). Collage by me.You are the weakest and least loved of your clan. You have been betrayed and driven out of your ancestral herding lands by your former...

Announcement: I just released a new solo tabletop game, From Dungeon to Table! You can get a feel for it in about 15 minutes. I encourage you to check it out! If you've been...

This week's ttrpg newsletter features discord discussions, blogs to read, lots of projects to bookmark and download, play reports and a poem by Amy Bonner.

I was fascinated by Troy Press recent piece "D&D Rules, According to Past Players" based on a general survey they did which found the D&D players among a broad sample of the...

This Month on Table 46I blogged about why hex maps need blank spaces for the Maps Blogwagon as well as attending Forge Midwest 2026. In the next few weeks I hope to present the...

I like little bespoke mechanics. Here’s one. How to stabilise a dying person If you have a medical kit, it contains five tools a tincture (d4), a tourniquet (d6), a lancet...

Another design journal, another sequel. About a week ago I was 7 or 8 days into working on the Community family of Queen Bee Ambitions. I'd been reading about Drone...

Magic items! Mysterious solutions to a problem not yet encountered. Who wouldn’t want to stuff their pockets with possibility? Today’s theme: Growth. With the northern...

Forge Midwest ran April 24-26 this year, so I'm quite late getting this report out. I had a blast as I do every year. I'd planned on running one session for each of my...

Hi there! Did you know that not only is NULL_SPACE out, not only is it out in physical form, and not only does it have a printed job packet…it has its first official...

A little zine I made for fun that contains three dark fairytales I originally wrote in 2025 for the NSR Sword& zine issue #1.

Sometimes, I like to confront a few of the curious questions that occasionally come up in various Settings. This time I decided to tackle that ubiquitous Lamp Oil, filling up...

I'm developing a puzzle game that fuses Chess with Murder Mysteries.

Pseudo-Pseudohistorical Violence: Playtesting and Second Draft I finally took my rules for a spin! I summarized the events of the sessions below, or you can skip straight to my...

After a few weeks off, we finally had the opportunity to play the seventh session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game. You can read past play reports...

I wasn't even shopping for a Game Boy Pocket. I was looking for a good deal on a Game Boy Camera. The best price I saw at the time was an auction for a bundle that included the...

 The Flare Children of the Imperial hinterlands wage a thankless, bloody, and unending insurgency against the soldiery of the White City. Most were born under occupation and...

As prep for the weekly BREAK!! campaign, we are looking to build out a goofy lil’ Goblin druidic settlement that has existed within the Spirits’ Grove since the start of the...

This post contains spoilers for a 2003 videogame. Beware. For some reason, I decided to play Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time last week. It was one of my first GameCube...

I poked one of the mainstay DM's of our local game society for their top tips on how to stitch scattered adventures together to make a campaign: - Conservation of NPCs - Tweak...

As of last month, all seven episodes of Rose Playing Games are available on Youtube, so leave a like if you haven’t already! The playlist for the whole series in order is here:...

Ah, Xiccarph, a strange and savage world home to sorcery and science in equal measure, a gleaming jewel of Klarkash-ton. Xiccarph, the home of the tyrant thaumaturgist Maal...

Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn...

 Trace a line in the shape of a human body. Generally they are life-sized or slightly larger, but there is no firm rule. Compose its interior space with whatever you wish -...

Something I'm testing out for my Intergalactic testing, recently added to the playtest doc.Being part of a thousand-strong crew on a huge starship has become a key part of...

Just like the last post, if you are party of my normal gaming group, don't read any further! Not until after our gaming getaway weekend, anyway! Recap In our last session, our...