Exploring The Royal Art Gallery Heist

A design delve into the adventure, The Royal Art Gallery Heist, and how its brevity gives it certain advantages.

How to Roleplay Without Accents

Can't do an accent? Join the club. Here's how I roleplay without them.

What's Under the Pope's Hat?

A d66 table of things you might find under the pope's hat. A blogclave post with links to other blogging cardinals.

Exploring Rumored Lands

A design delve into three zine-sized settings and their use of risograph printing.

The Explorateur: Issue #7

Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

Haus Rules for Mausritter

My house rules and mouse-sized hacks for the sword-and-whiskers roleplaying game, Mausritter.

False Dichotomies of RPG Design

Tabletop rpg design is plagued with either-or fallacies. "A book can be usable at the table, or it can be fun to read," is just one of them.

Designing a logo for Carouse, Carouse!

How I made the branding for Carouse, Carouse! A monthly party of an rpg newsletter full of rpg links, ideas, and gameable content.

The Explorateur: Issue #6

Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

An RPG's Guide to Surviving Shipping

Which rpgs survive the journey to my house? It depends on the packaging.

Why Combat Is a Fail State

Revisiting the old-school maxim "Combat is a fail state" and redefining what it means at my table and as a design theory for the OSR.

The Explorateur: Issue #5

Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.