A personal blog about ttrpgs, writing, video games, and other nerdy topics.
Riddles and puzzles were once a staple of tabletop gaming, especially in dungeon crawls. But these conundrums are typically solved by the players, not their characters. How should a group manage the meta-gaming for puzzle solving? …Should they?
Call of Cthulhu is considered the granddaddy of horror tabletop roleplaying but, like non-euclidean geometry, it...
In sci-fi and fantasy games, players are offered the choice of playing various sapient species. For...
Horror can be a difficult genre to run, even as a one-shot. In a campaign, the...
As I continue with the design of my own tabletop RPG system, I’ve been thinking a...
I’ve been working on a space fantasy universe setting, fiction, and ttrpg rules system for a...
Most tabletop RPGs put a focus on fighting the monsters and this trend has continued in...
In almost every tabletop genre player characters have some sort of personal vehicle or animal for...
When I wrote my Star Wars systems RPG summaries, I also began thinking about different Tabletop...
Player characters are often focused on the current and next adventure. Even if the characters don’t...
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