Tag: 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…

  • Gather Round The Hearth (Magazine)

    I posted a little while ago about my decision to publish a TTRPG magazine starting in 2025. Well, I made the soft launch last week on Bluesky. Gentlebeings, announcing The Hearth Magazine. A bi-monthly digital publication about and for the TTRPG space. It will feature articles and art from around the world, as well as…

  • Wherefore Magazine?

    A few weeks ago I sort of bullied myself into launching a TTRPG magazine in 2025. In fairness it’s something I’ve had on my mind for years, but it wasn’t until that ill-fated social media post that things sort of gelled around the idea, and it shifted from something I could do to something I…

  • 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…

  • My Only New Year’s Resolution

    I don’t normally make new year’s resolutions. But when Prismatic Wasteland issued their challenge to bloggers to create a new resolution mechanic, how could I say no? We love a good resolution system around here, but I hope you’ll accept this instead. The Any Two System – When the GM gives you the difficulty number…

  • Wandering to NJ Web Fest

    May of 2022 I had a Twitter conversation with two friends that changed my life. I didn’t realize it at the time. Life changing moments masquerade as totally normal moments, only revealing themselves when you look back at when it all went so right/wrong. In the moment Anne and I were wishing Krissy a happy…

  • Summing Up: Writing a Campaign Synopsis

    This past Sunday I wrote a thread on Twitter I thought might be worth posting in a clearer format here. We’re putting out the casting call soon for [REDACTED] so I needed to pull together the campaign synopsis, which is one of my favourite exercises for a new campaign. They are an absolute necessity for…

  • 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…

  • Updates and News

    Hello! I plan to get posts out every Wednesday minimum, so sorry for the silence. The time since my last post was rough, but things are back on track so look for me to come back to regular posts starting next week, with the second part of “Let’s Stat at the Beginning“. This week I…