Joshua Raynack is Lead Game Designer and co-founder of Alea Publishing Group.
Articles by Guest Writer
Recently, Guest Writer has been covering topics like Tabletop & RPGs, Sites, and Geek Stuff for Geek Native.
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.
Balancing Science and Fiction in Sci-Fi RPG: Tips from Roll & Play Press
Science and fiction. These two concepts might seem like opposites, and yet, when combined in science fiction, we get the best of both.
50 tips and resources for making your own single-page RPG
Create an entire tabletop roleplaying game that fits on a single A5 piece of paper.
How one game designer used real-world companies to inspire satire and a scifi RPG
“Saving money for easy living” is the garbage Tramlaw shovels down society’s throat. The truth is that they are saving money for themselves.
How procedural generation can save a busy DM
In the last years, video games have made popular the term “procedural generation” – and this is how it works at its most basic levels: a system where you have certain rules and frameworks, and a big database to draw from and fill the blanks.
Handling Online Battlemaps by cartographer Christian Zeuch
There are plenty of free maps that you can find and use online for your personal games.
Ask an expert: Emeka Ikechi’s cosplay photoshoot tips
Emeka Ikechi is Director of Vanity Studios, a contemporary studio for photoshoots in the centre of Shoreditch in London.
Freedom from Mechanics: Smoothing out your solo-RPG experience
Jacob White, the author of the indie project A Many Tale, which began life as a solo-RPG shares some wisdom and learnings around escaping from mechanics and smoothing out kinks from your solo experience.
