THE PRINCESS LIES Setup: You and at least 2 other players who have seen the movie The Princess Bride get 5 six-sided dice each. Each of...

I think I found French artist Cassegrain Didier's Instagram a few years ago and followed him, but didn't pay much attention. I mean...

Last year, at the suggestion of a friend, I hunted up a copy of the RPG Legendary Lives (Second Edition, 1993) by Joe Williams and Kathleen ...

I've spoken about my love for Bryan Baugh's work before in this post . But he needs to be officially immortalized in my Artists I Li...

Almost all my game designs include some form of "meta currency". Luck points. I got the idea originally from the TSR AD&D adve...

Last post was about Cunning and Prowess, which are the stats PCs roll against to accomplish almost everything. But that's not the first ...

Dead Wizards is a sword and sorcery RPG set in a sandy land. A bit of sand and sorcery, if you will. The idea came up about ten years ago as...

Continuing from this thread , here's a few more random RPG pulls and my off-the-cuff thoughts on how they handle setting. The Black Swor...

It's hard to write a good setting. I'm working on Dead Wizards and when I hit a struggle point, I like to grab books off my shelf an...

You see, I do all this stuff for fun, not for a living. I admire and respect my friends and cohorts who make a living at it. I do not. I als...