I started working on an Apocalypse World hack this week that I'm calling Adventure World. It's essentially going to be my take on a ...

I have been considering the idea of using an alternate system for armor in D&D-like games. Instead of increasing the character's Arm...

My group has been playing Apocalypse World for the last few weeks and the players' reactions to the mechanics has revealed a stark discr...

Idelfyn was a wizard, an architect, and a student of the dark lord Saprodei. He is perhaps best known for having built a series of towers ac...

Characters have four ability scores, with 7 points to distribute amongst them Power +0 : strength, stamina Quick +0 : reflexes, agility, s...

"The 1 minute melee round assumes much activity - rushes, retreats, feints, parries, checks, and so on. Once during this period each co...

Because Dungeon Crawl Classics has a design philosophy that every magic item be unique, and because the creation of a random magic weapon is...

After my players were on the short end of a total party kill I've decided to codify the optional rules I'm going to allow them to dr...

As part of my assignment for the Secret Santicore this year, I compiled a list of the monsters that are described and given stats in four O...

The Secret DM is having a design a dungeon contest to celebrate E. Gary Gygax'es birthday. They're giving away a few books but the ...

Generally I don't have any complaints about clerics themselves. I do, however, think that their role as a part of fantasy worlds' so...

There are hundreds of wizards running around contemporary D&D settings and society still manages to exist in this pre-Renaissance middle...

In the early 1990s I was purchasing Dark Sun books and there was this itch in my brain that some things in AD&D simply didn't make a...

The Dungeon Crawl Classics role-playing game, published earlier this year, uses a system that is 100% random and requires players to generat...

Sometimes during a gaming session people will reminisce about games played in the past, and we will sit and listen to somebody share an anec...

Yesterday I wrote a comparison of visibility and illumination in different editions of AD&D. Today I'm comparing movement and time ...

I've been trying to lock down some concrete rules on visibility for Dungeon Crawl Classics since the rulebook doesn't give specific ...

Last night we got to bite into more of Dungeon Crawl Classics and some really cool things emerged from playing. The beginning of this game s...

This year I was growing tired of gaming. I was beginning to feel worn out. I can't really put a finger on what I was thinking, except th...

I wrote a review for the Random Esoteric Creature Generator by James Edward Raggi IV, you can read it by following this link . The highlig...