Thursday, 27 February 2025

A Troubling Setting Riddled With Orientalist Tropes

›
  [Click to enlarge] This blog post is a warning. There is at loose in the world a nefarious RPG setting book with foul and malevolent conte...
46 comments:
Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Why Make Up Elfworlds?

›
I have a confession to make. I make it in the hopes that, out there in the world, there are other strange deviants such as me - who can perh...
10 comments:
Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Comfort Reading and the Escape to Fish Pie

›
As I get older I get increasingly po-faced and Spartan: I no longer believe in holidays, days off, video games, TV, leisure, smiling, friend...
37 comments:
Monday, 17 February 2025

Cyberpunk in 2025: A Triptych

›
I used to play Cyberpunk 2020 and Shadowrun  a lot in the mid-late 1990s, as well as Necromunda , which always felt cyberpunk-adjacent. To d...
11 comments:
Thursday, 13 February 2025

Bad Things Happen: Unknown BFGs, Twits and Witches

›
As a father I have become reacquainted with the books of Roald Dahl, most of which I haven't read for well over thirty years. One of the...
6 comments:
Tuesday, 11 February 2025

Running a Kickstarter: Lessons Learned

›
I have run two Kickstarters. One was completed, done-and-dusted from launch to distribution, successfully. One is approaching that stage aft...
14 comments:
Friday, 31 January 2025

On Resurrection in D&D: The Pincher Martin Gambit

›
Why are D&D PCs resurrectable?  We do not like to think about the metaphysics or theology of D&D settings, so it is generally a ques...
24 comments:
Tuesday, 28 January 2025

The Adventurer's Vow

›
A long, long time ago, I can still remember when I wrote a blog post about the Book of Judges , reasoning that PCs-as-Biblical-Judges had an...
20 comments:
Thursday, 23 January 2025

Mode, Not Genre or Type

›
We tend I think to classify or categorise campaigns into genres (fantasy, SF, horror) or sub-genres (high fantasy, sword and sandal); or int...
10 comments:
Tuesday, 21 January 2025

An Incomplete Theory of -Taurs

›
It is easy to 'grok' (sorry) centaurs. Half-human, half-horse, their behaviour and culture is obvious: they are souped-up raiders of...
34 comments: