A table role is a formal responsibility a player assumes to manage or track some aspect of the group experience in playing a tabletop role-playing game. Table roles exist to speed up and facilitate the game, and address needs at a particular table, so not every group will find every role useful.…
Fifth edition D&D feels to me like a game which wants to let you design your characters, but has a few escape hatches to let dice decide aspects of your character. In contrast, Stars Without Number seems to take rolling for stuff as the default, but provides an escape hatch for player choice.…
After releasing a small attribute roller last October, one of the first suggestions I got received for an additional feature was the ability to specify arbitrary, custom constraints on each attribute roll-out. This was obviously a bit more complex than letting users choose from an enumerated list…
For the first entry in this series I thought I would read Stars Without Number. It's a game I've somehow heard a lot about and even purchased despite remaining almost utterly ignorant of it. The book's been sitting on my shelf for over a month, now. It's about time I actually read the thing.…
At least half of my bookshelf is comprised of RPG books I've yet to read, let alone play. So, I thought I might leverage the my to-read list guilt together with my remorse over neglecting this blog and start a regular feature on here where I read and summarize role-playing game books.…
Matthew Colville put up a video a while ago on verbs and role-playing games. Or really verbs and fiction and narratives in general. Matthew Colville does a lot of videos on role-playing games (and Dungeons & Dragons in particular) and I greatly appreciate a lot of his work. But this…
Recently I've since been reading all the advice on D&D I can get. I'm particularly fond of the UA on traps that WotC released a while back, and appreciated the structure recommended in there for designing traps. I thought something similar might be useful in creating secret doors and passages.…