#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #tournaments Sometimes the path to victory is long, and you must pass through many challenges. Let's talk about the tournament arc in RPGs.

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #SpectresOfBrocken Once in a while, you're just looking for a really flavorful setting. Flipping through my collection, one of them jumped out at me. You'll never guess what it was.

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #Origin #chargen Perhaps I should have titled this, "On the Origin of Characters," as an homage to Darwin. What is the origin of your character? Does your character even have

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #AppendixN Inspiration is a broad thing for some of us. It's hard to capture, like lightning in a bottle. What we can do is write our own Appendix N and share it.

Who do I have to kill to get a good chicken shawarma right now? Sure, I can order it from DoorDash, but I want it right now.

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #screenplay A little something different today. Not directly related to RPGs, but derived from it. How would you like a little screenplay action?

#TTRPG #fightingGames #PanicAtTheDojo Sometimes you just find the right thing at the right time. Panic at the Dojo is all about the fighting game aesthetic, except on the tabletop and way better than Street

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 What's the difference between a hex crawl and a point crawl? Does it really matter? Does the journey itself really matter? Or is it just filler between the place the characters are

#TTRPG #DnD #Traveller It bugs me when people denigrate other people's fantasy, especially when it's deeply unfounded. What is the fantasy of the D&D character compared to the Traveler character? What

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 What is the purpose of narrative motive? How about character motives? What are the three most important questions to ask yourself about every character? What's your motive?

#TTRPG #Traveller #Starforged There was no way I was going to get out of effectively writing up a near full conversion of Traveler to Starforged after the entry on the 4th. It's only 16,000 words, it's

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #Warpland #SwordsOfTheSerpentine #BladesInTheDark #PlayingGod Many strange things have been seen under the ancient sun, but mainstream fantasy gaming hasn't embraced that vision, for

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #Traveller There's a message on the cover of the original Traveller. Almost everybody has read it, but have you really thought about it?

#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #Ironsworn I may be late to the party on RPG a Day. First, I take up the issue of patronage, followed by a digression on the usefulness of promptness. And then finally, we build a

#TTRPG #DrawSteel Look, I get it that people are excited that MCDM's Draw Steel has finally gone up on a marketplace where you can order it. But that price point? Look, we can do better. I have some words.

The answer to that question is easy. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

#wargame #TTRPG #AdventureWargame Man, a whole bunch of really good things have hit sales all at once today. If you want World War II, we have tons of World War II. You want space? We've got space. And

#TTRPG #writing #tribalism Ruminating on my own work and looking around at the reaction to others, sometimes it's driven home to me how weird my inclination to go beyond my tribe is.

Well, if you'd actually read the article that I wrote about it and the thoughts that I shared, you would understand that part of it is that it seems like a subversion of the whole point of personal creativity,

#wargames #AgeOfSigmar #design It turns out that I don't really like the Age of Sigmar setting. I figured out how to rebuild the underpinnings of the design, and even implement an entire tournament with