How to Succeed in RPGs or Die Trying

On a post about cursed items, someone wrote, "I have never liked cursed items. Why would someone make one?" I responded with a bri...

This tired old debate* rears its ugly head with alarming frequency, and every time, I am left wanting from the answer. Whenever someone comp...

If you run games long enough, higher-order patterns begin to emerge without your direct input. A campaign setting is a thing better divined ...

"Don't do fashionable science." — Max Delbrück A mantra for 2023. Wandering around the lonely corners of the internet in this...

In case you haven't heard the good word, there's a community project this year. (Already in progress!) Sean McCoy posted about this ...

As noted elsewhere , I've run a lot of long campaigns. (I don't currently have an ongoing game that has lasted less than three years...

A couple of months ago, The Alexandrian made a post  about OneD&D in which he took issue with " bounded accuracy ," the idea i...