Gaming + Roleplaying

If your Pathfinder 1e druid wants to summon a Black Bear, or your ranger wants one as an animal companion, your first instinct is to pull open the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary and flip to the "B"

We Built a Tabletop RPG Reference Site for 26+ years of "Open Source" Gaming Content! Hey Hive! Our team has been quietly building something over the past year and it's far enough along that

If you’ve been following the tabletop publishing space since the "OGL Crisis" of 2023, you probably have a mental model that looks like this: OGL is the old, broken thing; ORC is the new, better

Silas headed east along the river, walking swiftly toward Falcon's Hollow, a small ferry town now growing on the horizon even as the sun began to set behind him. Back stiff and legs tired from two days

Hey everyone, We’re doing a Solo Adventure. One GM. One Player. No meat-shields, no dedicated healer bot, no wizard to sleep the encounter while everyone else beats on them. Just one hero against a very

Recently I have been doing a lot of farming, in both the physical and digital worlds. As part of that, I operate Region 41 of Praetoria, Pandon Reach. Alongside @burlarj on @emp-warden, we make up the

Hey Everyone, Every adventure has its beginning. While I often champion in media res to kick things off with a bang, I have opted for a classic, "in the beginning" approach for this solo experiment.

Hey everyone, Happy lazy... whatever today is. Wednesday? Really? I intended to post yesterday, but a supply run derailed my plans. The grocery stores were barren. Whether it was storm prep or a logistical

Its been awhile since I wrote a post, focusing on other things in my life - including a very nice visit to my Mom. As I look back on my blog I see that I have a pending update, so I wanted to "break

Hey everyone, We've traveled the world for our spooky season "Boogeymen" series, from the jungles of Colombia with La Patasola to the ancient forests of Russia with Baba Yaga. Now, it's time

Hey everyone, Our spooky season monster manual continues! We are making a 180-degree turn and going with a low-level monster after the queen that is Baba Yaga. We're diving into a tale that has been used

Hey everyone, We're continuing our spooky season monster manual by traveling to the vast, primeval forests of Slavic folklore. This isn't just a simple creature that hides under the bed; this is one of

Hey everyone, Unless everyone is enjoying these, and wants to see more, this will probably be the last one for a while. My friend @ecoinstant lives in Colombia and shared this next one with me, and it’s

Hey everyone, We were without power for most of yesterday, which meant no coding, no server work, and no internet. Instead of being a total loss, it turned into a nice, quiet day. My wife and I broke out

Hey everyone, With Halloween just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to get into the spooky spirit by creating some monster manual entries for the real "boogeymen" of the world. These

Hey everyone, Today, while working on a project, I made a typo. It was one of those annoying mistakes that required me to dump a whole database because it just wasn't worth the effort to fix, it is a dev

Read to the end to hear about our 100 HIVE image contest for creating a viable image of the painted Serenity Trompe! When tabletop RPGs explore the future of artificial intelligence In the spring of 4723

Hey everyone, Today I want to move beyond my usual "Lazy GM" tips and talk about something that lies at the heart of any great TTRPG campaign: a compelling villain. We've all fought the generic

Hey everyone, Today’s tip is for all the Game Masters out there who, like me, sometimes draw a complete blank when trying to come up with the next challenge for the party. This is a zero-prep technique