Author tales: Working on Books with a Real Manga Creator
It's really hard to reach a manga creator. In the West we love to show our faces for the cameras and publicity, but manga artists sometimes won't let their faces be seen by the public.
Hexcrawl table: Gifts from Dead Gods
Graveyard of the Gods has three weeks left to run and has characters exploring the corpses of dead gods adrift on the astral plane.
I’m a Professional Manga Creator, and I Made the World’s First Manga Chalk Book
In Japan, manga usually refers to one-shot manga or a series of manga, not just a manga-like illustration. In many cases, mangaka create both manga stories and manga art.
How DMs Can Conjure Up Creativity into Session Prep Using Writing Prompts
Now you have all you need to jumpstart your next session prep with some creative writing prompts and find some new ideas.
Corruption might be unexpectedly wholesome in your RPG
Corruption comes in many forms. Regardless of differences, all of them are linked to the central premise that something once pure or good becomes infected, and slowly changes into something less than what it was, a damaged version of itself, often twisted into its very antithesis.
How to Put a Time Limit on Your D&D Quests – and why you should
When we play a game like Dungeons & Dragons, the outcome of each session is, generally speaking, unknown to everyone involved.
What Great Writers Do
Most of us have heard the saying–whether from tabletop game creators, Aaron Sorkin, or T. S. Eliot– "Good writers borrow, great writers steal."
Combat-hacking: How to Make Your 5th Edition Combat Iconic
Joshua Raynack is Lead Game Designer and co-founder of Alea Publishing Group.
Game Jams: Three TTRPGs inspired by music
Recently, I took a deep dive into indie games with music at their core. It's a theme that's inspired everything from microgames to full-length systems.
Exploring the Familiar in Tabletop Roleplaying Games
We tend to think of exploration as "seeing something new". We imagine floating crystal highways, a dragon made of cheese, or a huge galactic bug predator; something we haven't seen before and could scarcely imagine.
