Woah! So here’s the deal: OSR players and DMs cling to the Gygaxian glory of yore, while the hashtag generation is all about novelty on demand. No…. Shocker!
RPG designer John-Matthew DeFoggi on how a time jump can serve your players and setting
J-M DeFoggi has written and developed for Shadowcraft, 13th Age, and Torg Eternity. Osprey Games published his Jackals: Bronze Age Fantasy Roleplaying and subsequent campaign and lore books, and he is now the Lead Developer at Strange Owl Games.
Solo, Together: The Case for Collaborative Journaling Games
Leon is a game designer who readers might recognise from MCDM, Ghostfire Gaming and EN Publishing titles.
Angry Hamster talks about when it’s time for a 2nd Edition, New Magic, Witches
Witch: Fated Souls Second Edition is a modern, dark fantasy game where you play a witch who sold their soul to a demon for power. Your soul might be lost, but there’s still hope for redemption if you can outwit your demon!
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a TPK
Death in TTRPGs can be a sticky topic though. We’re all used to dying in video games, but you have players out there that have never lost a character in a tabletop RPG before.
Teaching literacy through games
Michael Low, teacher and game designer, is Kickstarting Starsworn, an all-ages colouring book/choose-your-own-adventure game that builds literacy.
Charisma Saves: Improving Improv
Improv is such a large part of the RPG space. It fills in the narrative gaps and helps interpret what is happening when the dice roll.
The Bulgasari from Korean mythology is a perfect boss monster for your 5e campaign
Nine Heavens Press have an interesting 5e Kickstarter running this month for Undying Corruption: A Korean 5e Adventure. Characters are shamans and exorcists in a setting influenced by Korean folklore. The creative team are mostly Asian-American tabletop game makers bringing talent and cultural insight. Geek Native covered the Kickstarter launch but I felt there was […]
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.
