A horror is an unnatural creature - something inherently inhuman or inhumane. It either exists on the periphery of reality, barely understoo...

Every game I've ever played that had a Luck mechanic, a spendable resource used to modify rolls or situations, it's been useless. Pr...

...with apologies to velexiraptor , this is my take on their elegant OSR psionics system as applied to Apocalypse World. When you wield psio...

I have had to restrict commenting because I've been getting too many spam comments originating from this blog in my mailbox. Right now, ...

My first project for 2021 was a little more work intensive than I first expected it to be.  I created facsimiles of the original D&D whi...

I'm looking at my history of posts this last year and I am not surprised at my great lack of output. There was a great silence between A...

  Humanoids with radiant fungus growing out of their skin. The fungus doesn't take a single appearance, it can form as a mossy fur, tiny...

I had the idea that since I'm looked up in my house now is probably the best time to sign up for InDesign and see if I can convert some ...

Eva M Brown wrote " Instead of hit points use your hit die. When you're hit you can roll any number of hit die. If you roll higher ...

Everything we have is robbed from graves, from corpses entombed in their own homes, from the dead cities buried under dirt and water, from t...

When newborn daughters are thrown into rivers, the grim necessity of a desperate family to rid of itself of another mouth to feed, they some...

1. With enough reason we will make slaves of ourselves. 2. I wish I could see those fields of green once more. 3. All your life will be fo...

Goblins don't fear death because they have a very peculiar form of immortality: As long as a dead goblin is eaten by another goblin, all...

ZakS wrote this post but he didn't like what I had to say... the comments there are moderated and mine never appeared. So here it is! ...

I'm working on something for Apocalypse World Coming soon!

If I'm playing a game and my character is a super badass who is really good at one thing then I shouldn’t be left rolling the dice and f...

tl;dr You don't want to play Dark Souls the RPG. What would a Dark Souls tabletop role-playing game actually look like? I think it wou...

The series starts with three kinds of magic: sorceries, miracles, and pyromancies. Sorcery is a form of magic that is implied to have been...

We haven't played D&D in almost 2 months. This seems to happen to me every year, around July or August we take a break and then we j...

In 1979 when Gary Gygax first compiled his list of literature for Appendix N , he was drawing upon literature that he had grown up with and ...