What I particularly like is that they included a lot of tips for new players or people new to the system. There are character guide sheets for each Class which give players assistance when creating ...

Day 12 of #RPGaDay2024, continuing with the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala Wyzwania. For more information on RPG a Day, see David Chapman’s Autocratik blog post for 2024. The RPG challenge ...

When you watch the D&D movie, the Vox Machina series, or the La Mesa actual-play videos, you see a fantasy world quite different from the one I grew up playing and reading about. Cards on the table, I ...

Today I stumbled upon an article by Jeff Rients in which he writes about a rather lengthy Medium post by Dr. Clio Belle Weisman, a psychotherapist and social research scientist. She did a long study ...

I consider myself a tabletop roleplaying games fan. I have enjoyed playing RPGs for most of my life, I’ve run games myself for over 25 years and I have introduced quite a few people to the hobby. But ...

While browsing on itch.io I recently stumbled upon Heroes of Adventure, a free, rules-light, OSR-adjacent tabletop roleplaying game released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Like D&D it ...

I think it’s not the first time that I’ve mentioned my love for West End Games’ original Star Wars Roleplaying game from 1987. It’s one of the first roleplaying games I’ve played and it’s a game I ...

I irregularly play around with ChatGPT to help me come up with ideas or just to experiment with what it can do. Recently I asked it to tell me about this very blog. Here’s what ChatGPT came up with: ...

Day 6 #RPGaDay2024, Continuing with the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala Wyzwania. For more information, see David Chapman’s Autocratik blog post for RPG a Day 2024.

I have a soft spot for the Old School Renaissance. Even though I never played original D&D or owned one of the Basic D&D boxes I have some quasi-nostalgic feelings toward this era of gaming. I like ...

I first met Sean Preston at Gen Con 2010. I think I had exchanged a few emails with him before that, but it would be exaggerated if I said I knew him. I was actually waiting to speak with the guys ...

While clicking around on the Daggerheart website today I noticed a section called “The Void”. To my surprise it is their official playtesting hub where they post new Daggerheart stuff for us to try ...