and vice versa

This isn’t just a blog post. It is the closest I can get to begging a talented software developer to just make an open-source VTT. The VTT landscape is pretty dire. They are almost universally sto...

Non-troversy There was a recent “controversy” around Quinns’ review of Triangle Agency. Proponents of the game thought he just didn’t get it, and that his criticisms unfairly damaged its popularit...

Daggerheart’s combat has a great idea that is also an enormous problem, damage thresholds. On the one hand limiting damage to 3 max makes balance easy (theoretically1). It lets you can break enemi...

I have always found it a tad odd that in RPGs you are more or less always just as likely to fail as when you started. Sure the odd stats boost means you technically bumping the probability of you s...

I want to be more intentional with my note-taking and recall of the sessions I run. Now is the best time to start this as my biggest table is starting a new campaign, so I am now keeping a campaign...

I just had a Cyberpunk Red session end in a great piece of emergent story. We’re going to dissect the item that made it tick, and then extract a general principle for folks who don’t even play Cybe...

A dino-engineering Screamsheet

For those unfamiliar, Daggerheart is the latest fantasy TTRPG from Darrington Press, the Critical Role people! It’s a merging of story games, with their degrees of success, and the D&D basics w...

I am always looking for ways to enable GMs to be lazier. Too long the lie of GM prep having to be long and laborious has ruined many a new GM. So I collect advice and ideas to integrate into my pro...