I don't usually talk about how Loreshaper Games uses the platform of Steemit and the Steem blockchain in general, but since I'm buried in work on projects and don't yet want to finish my series on archetypes,

MARS isn’t Barsoom, but licensed property or not you can make it work with a bit of mangling. My concern here isn’t for balance, but rather to present some ideas for rules that are representative of the

Oh, this blog still exists … Uhm, hi! A lot of stuff has been happening recently, and time has been sparse. I took some time to write this though. Soon I will also write a recap of my The Sprawl campaign

Genties, Ladymen and children of all genders! Cast your functioning sensory organs in something approximating this direction and gaze in awe and wonder at the cavalcade of entertainment and dysfunction

The question for day 21 of #AprilTTRPGMaker is “How many playtests?” This is a big question, and as I've said before the topic of playtesting is near and dear to my heart. More than zero My position is

GGG 1: What is Roleplaying?

When designing a tabletop RPG, the most useful feedback a designer can get is a recording of a game session based off of a draft of the current rules. Record the session While it's nice to be able to get

Hello steemian friends. Today I bring you an in-depth Photoshop tutorial of one of my recent illustrations. All my cartography illustrations are published on my blog www.elventower.com and my Patreon page.

This week's @steemiteducation homework assignment asked the community to share "the funniest classroom experience you have ever had". Although I have written about a few of these already, one

Without conflict, there is no story. And it is the antagonist in every great story that provides and drives conflict. As game masters, sometimes we struggle with making stories interesting for our players.

One thing I believe strongly in, is that you can get a game plot from just about anywhere. Rip off a couple of films or TV series and mix them together. Take a couple of books and rip the bits you like

The #AprilTTRPGMaker activity day 12 question asks: “How do you get your work out there?” Like several other people, I think the most accurate answer for me is “I don't.” As with a lot of things nowadays,

Roleplaying Minds:

Question 11 of the #AprilTTRPGMaker activity is “What's yer brand?”. Generally I'm a bit dubious of the value of independent designers also creating a “company brand” for their products. It seems to me

Today, I wanted to talk about work processes and productivity. I'm not exactly the best metric of this (though I have been writing a couple thousand words a day on average recently, so something's going

Over the next thirty days or so, I will be doing preliminary work and outlining plans and ideas for a fantasy setting for Machinations of the Space Princess, Sexy, Sleazy Swords & Sorcery. This

Brad McDevitt’s latest clip art. I know, I know, I’ve been slack. Still really struggling with fuckbrain issues, but they seem – hopefully – to be somewhat on the mend.  Here’s what’s going on… The

Brok and Sindre was two Dwarven brothers in the old Norse tales of gods and jætter (danish, i dont know what the are called in english) When I made the sculpt of a dwarf, I originally thought of him as

Hello steemian friends. A little while ago I shared a WIP of a fantasy illustration I'm creating. This is the finished illustration for reference. I'll be sharing my step by step process after that. I