Education
Design Your Locks With More Keys
Every adventure's puzzle should have multiple solutions. In this article, we figure out how to give all of our metaphorical locks a ring of keys.
Critique
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.
Education
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.
Critique
Exploring Rumored Lands
A design delve into three zine-sized settings and their use of risograph printing.
Explorateur
The Explorateur: Issue #7
Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
Theory
Haus Rules for Mausritter
My house rules and mouse-sized hacks for the sword-and-whiskers roleplaying game, Mausritter.
Theory
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.
Education
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.
Explorateur
The Explorateur: Issue #6
Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
Education
An RPG's Guide to Surviving Shipping
Which rpgs survive the journey to my house? It depends on the packaging.
Theory
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.