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.
This is part 4 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted part 3 last week. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, here’s the deep dive on Stonetop I posted a few weeks ago. Enjoy! This was our last Stonetop thread until mid-October 2023. Lots of scheduling hiccups came up! But we… Continue reading Stonetop AP Episode 4: Back Home
This is part 3 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted part 2 last week. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, here’s the deep dive on Stonetop I posted a few weeks ago. Enjoy! Our heroes finally, finally got to deal with their gwead-spirit problem and all it took was a… Continue reading Stonetop AP Episode 3: The Eternal Grasslands
This is part 2 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted part 1 last week. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, here's the deep dive on Stonetop I posted a few weeks ago. Enjoy! Had to start a little later than usual because my kid's in the school… Continue reading Stonetop AP Episode II: On The Road
I take lots of notes during play and turn them into, hopefully, fun AP writeups for our Slack. This is the result of the Stonetop game I ran while working on last month's deep dive. After I've had a chance to let them percolate a while and incorporate comments and questions, I'll post them here… Continue reading Stonetop AP! Episode 1
We just wrapped up a nice long campaign of Stonetop, Jeremy Strandberg’s Iron Age community RPG being published by Lampblack & Brimstone…someday. It’s been a work-in-progress for a lot of years now. It’s getting close! Stonetop is available as a preorder on Backerkit. You get immediate access to the PDFs. I have a lot to… Continue reading Deep Dive: Stonetop
