Essays, actual play, theory talk, and general navel-gazing about story-focused roleplaying, aka “indie” games. And trindie. And OSR. If you’re small and scrappy, I want to talk about what you’re doing! If you’re fighting to grow, I want to talk about what you’re doing! Basically if it’s roleplaying (tabletop, freeform, larp, whatevs) and it’s not the monolith of D&D, it’s in my wheelhouse.
Rach Shelkey and Rich Rogers interviewed me again for their excellent podcast, +1 Forward. It's always a pleasure being on their show! This episode was interesting and a little technical, about the problems and opportunities to scale campaign play throughout a PbtA game. It's a tricky problem, because there typically aren't any GM-side adjustments you… Continue reading Interview on +1 Forward
How little game can you get away with and still have an RPG session? And what will you learn when you play?
This month's free game is Intake. Go get it and let me know what you thought!
What is it about gamers wanting to find their Forever Game? That one game they’re always going to be happiest playing, the pinnacle against which they will compare all future games, the one they think about when they’re playing anything else. We just wrapped up a long, like around 20 sessions long, campaign of Vel… Continue reading Fellowship: Close To Great
I have an Itch page! Putting new games on there each month all year long.
