Category: Role-playing

  • It’s Been a While

    I’ve been so busy the last several months, I only just realized I sort of left you hanging with my last post. So to catch you up…The Hearth Magazine launched! It launched later than I wanted, but back-to-back norovirus and flu will slow anyone down, so I can’t really feel too bad. Anyway, you can…

  • Extra Life (Solo) TTRPG Weekend

    I had intended to run games during Extra Life’s official Tabletop Weekend a few weeks ago but health issues got in the way. But every weekend can be Tabletop Weekend if you believe. So join me April 26-28 for my Extra Life Solo TTRPG Weekend! I’m playing solo TTRPGs and chatting, most importantly I’m raising…

  • At The Rat Hole

    Another week, another interview over at The Rat Hole! This week I had the distinct pleasure of talking with Cassi Mothwin, a brilliant designer of TTRPGs ranging from the cozy to the horrific. Her latest solo TTRPG, Carved by the Garden, launched on Kickstarter tomorrow. We took an hour to talk about the TTRPG space,…

  • Down The Rat Hole

    This week at The Rat Hole, I interview Argentinian TTRPG designer Tomas Gimenez Rioja about his new liminal horror storytelling game, What Is It That Lies Beyond The Immenseness of the Dark?. We also talked about TTRPGs in the Global South and a few other things. It’s a good read, go check it out!

  • Interlude: Pre-Rolling

    Back when I ran a whole lot of Pathfinder on a regular basis, I got in the habit of pre-rolling a bunch of d20 rolls. Before a session I would roll the d20 a bunch of times, say twenty or thirty, and record those numbers in order. Then when I needed a roll for an…

  • Let’s Stat at the Beginning, Part One

    Back in the Before Times (2022) I talked about taking on a little personal project, to approach D&D 5e as if I were doing a developmental edit on a manuscript. Basically, taking the “just house rule it!” advice we’re barraged with on social media whenever a problem with the game is brought up, and going…

  • Dungeon23 and Me

    If you’re hanging around TTRPG twitter, chances are good you’ve seen the hashtag “dungeon23” about, along with its companions “city23”, “setting23”, and so on. Search those hashtags and you’ll find all sorts of settings, locations, monsters, magic items, created by the folks taking part, as well as discussion about the ideas behind the projects. But…

  • Looking Forward

    This past year was a hell of a ride, and almost nothing about it I would have seen coming from where I was in January 2022. I had just cleared 2000 followers on Twitter, there were so many friends I hadn’t met yet, so many projects coming that weren’t even on my radar. And so…

  • Solo Saturday Part Two!

    This past Saturday was Solo Saturday the First! By every metric I care about it was a rousing success: folks came by and engaged, I had returning viewers, some of the creators dropped by at various points, money was donated to Extra Life, I got new followers, and I played four excellent games. It was…

  • Solo Saturday!

    Tomorrow, starting at 10am MST/Noon EST, I am playing eight hours of Solo TTRPGs in support of Extra Life! There will also be chatting, and prize giveaways, and stuff. “Oo, stuff! Tell us more about the Stuff, Brent!” I will, I promise, but let’s take things in order. Games! Picking up from where I left…