One of my new gaming buddies recently asked for advice about finding inspirational pictures for RPGs. He'd been mostly looking at video ...

Some of the twelve worlds are nearly indistinguishable from our own. Others are barren wastelands, sylvan paradises, or dystopian nightmares...

Hit points are an abstraction of a combination of physical durability, tenacity, skill, luck, narrative importance, and... well... probably ...

The mystical secret history genre (think Tim Powers) is ripe for roleplaying. Unknown Armies sits squarely in this space, and many modern-se...

Here's an idea for tweaking initiative in Pathfinder and other games that use d20-style system. It is loosely based on some ideas from E...

Let's revisit a topic that I brought up five years ago . I've never liked that luck tends to be handled in RPGs by a reroll. The oth...

When RPGs were created there were some assumptions that were made. They'd be played around a table. Players would have paper and writing...