How to Solve the Problem of Players Becoming Murder-Hobos
Marie Cham asks: Dear @matthewmercer , From one dm to another, how can you stop/prevent your players from always becoming murder-hobos and killing their way through your campaign? Sincerely yours, a...
View ArticleOn Ganon and His Big Bird Nose
Ganon from The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most iconic Nintendo villains, despite having undergone a number of redesigns and reimaginings until his current incarnation solidified sometime...
View ArticleMarch of the Ants: 4X Strategic Simulation or Party Game?
[originally posted here at Castalia House] Tim Eisner’s March of the Ants is a Euro resource collection/point scorer cleverly disguised as a war game. Two to five players take on the role of ant...
View ArticleShort Reviews – Raiders of the Second Moon by Basil Wells (as Gene Ellerman)
[originally posted here at Castalia House] Raiders of the Second Moon by Basil Wells (as Gene Ellerman) appeared in the Summer 1945 issue of Planet Stories. Of all the short stories I’ve read over the...
View ArticleQuick Update on Some News & Things
Lot of stuff going on, and we’ve had so little time to talk about it! First up, I was recently on a podcast with Mr. E and a couple other folks talking about comics & stuff. Lots of fun. You can...
View ArticleWild Stars Launches Tomorrow + Wild Stars RPG
Tomorrow, we begin taking pre-orders for the Wild Stars IV: Wild Star Rising and the rest of the 35th Anniversary goodies, but I wanted to bring everyone’s attention to this other crowdfund from...
View ArticleWild Stars: B/X D&D Stats for Griefs
Wild Stars is great adventure fodder for your tabletop RPG. So much so that there may be an Amazing Adventure 5e supplement created for it by Troll Lord Games in the not so distant future. But you guys...
View ArticleSunrider: Mask of Arcadius Review
Recently an online friend who knew I enjoyed wargames and weeb shit recommended Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius to me. It’s an interesting hybrid of Visual Novel waifu game and turn-based tactical. It’s...
View ArticleFrom Pulp to the Gaming Table: Running Short Fiction as RPG
[originally posted here at Castalia House] “The Third Reich has fallen, but one of its chief scientists, a Dr. Karl von Mark, has been on the run. He was tracked down to somewhere in Africa where he...
View ArticleMore AD&D Gaming Thoughts from Daniel J. Davis
The episode of Geek Gab that Jeffro Johnson and I were on talking about the implied setting of AD&D has sparked some incredibly thought-provoking posts from author Daniel J. Davis on his Brain...
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Free to Use B/X D&D Character Sheet
There are a lot of good character sheets out there for B/X, and a lot of them are free for private use. But I needed something for potential commercial use, and I didn’t feel like digging through the...
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Sunrider: Liberation Day Review
Okay, I’m finally getting around to my review of Sunrider: Liberation Day! Sunrider did a weird episodic-gaming thing, where episodes 1 & 2 were included in Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius and then they...
View ArticleMaze of Nuromen
This saturday at 1PM, I’ll be running Maze of Nuromen at Arkansas RPG Con. If you’re in central Arkansas, be sure to register and drop by! https://tabletop.events/conventions/arkansas-rpg-con Our good...
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Maze of Nuromen, Breaking the Speed of Light, and 2020 Advertisements
Maze of Nuromen at Arkansas RPG Con Over the weekend, I ran the Blueholme introductory module, Maze of Nuromen. It’s called The Necropolis of Nuromen now, but I’m Old SchoolTM. Michael Thomas of...
View ArticleReminder that Frogs are Creepy and Spoopy and Turn Bogs into a Nightmare
Was walking my border collie last night by the boglands near the river. It was a horror-show of sounds with cheeps and peeps and under it all, cackling laughter. A menacing “HA HA Ha Ha ha…” from the...
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…and Almost Finished with Game Content!
I spent a pretty good chunk of the evening working on bonus content for Mongoose & Meerkat! The result is roughly 3,000 words of gaming content, including: How to drop the Battlefield of Keres into...
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Playing Around With HeroForge – Mongoose and Meerkat Minis
One of the things we did with our Mongoose and Meerkat project with Jim Breyfogle was create D&D stats for a few of the stories so they could be run for B/X. Something I’d love to do for a future...
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Appendix N and Atomic Rayguns in D&D
There’s always a bit of a discussion on just how gonzo D&D should be and those “weird” modules that had rayguns in them. How can you have rayguns in D&D? It doesn’t make sense! Why would there...
View Article“D&D is Lord of the Rings: the Game”
Every once in awhile, you get someone who comes along and insists that despite all of the evidence to the contrary, Dungeons & Dragons is nothing more than Lord of the Rings: the Game–everything...
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The United Caveman Federation
If you’ve had a chance to back The Paths of Cormanor, you should read up on what’s going on in Jeffro’s Trollopolous game. Jon has a pretty good brief overview at War in a Box. Most of our gaming...
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