START AGAIN: a prologue
How do you feel about Time loops, dear reader? Does the monotony of the same day over and over and over bore you to tears? Or does the hope to fix your mistakes blind you to the truth that the…
Category Role Playing Game
How to Build a Big Bad Villain
There are a few ways to create the ultimate evil for your DnD (or other media) game! The Standard Choose from the prototypes of any popular mass media for the skeleton to build your villain off of! The common tropes…
Setting the Stage: How to prep for your first DnD session
Your Stuff Ready by session One: Basic World building: Major locations and the breadcrumbs that will lead your players there. Some starter quest for your players to introduce them to the world or situations you want them to face. This…
How to make a Feats-Based RPG
What are Feats? Feats are, boiled down, unique actions or abilities that one can do A game that relies on feats over anything else generally has less reliance on stats or items, and is more about the imagery that comes…
Good Society: a Jane Austen RPG
From Kickstarter project to off-the-shelf popular enough for a reprint, “Good Society” has come long way. First released in 2018, funded by $154,774 Australian dollars from 2,677 backers, it included a hardcover rulebook, between 20-36 cards (depending on how much…
Dungeon design in DnD: The Rooms, Hallways, and the bits between your players and the Boss
A home is not an empty house; even the most neat space still has stuff in it. In Dnd, the problem is how to describe a space without tripping up your players, while maintaining the atmosphere you want. Where is…
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
The PC Alpha version of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is scheduled to arrive on March 29th. Odyssey is the newest DLC for the MMO space flight simulation game Elite Dangerous. Produced by the renowned British developers at Frontier Developments, Elite Dangerous…
DnD for Dummies
Part 1: Character Creation When you are asked to join a Dungeons & Dragons adventure, it is rare to go as the persona you present in day-to-day life. Instead, you’re given a plethora of options for race and class, and…
EVE Online
On February 4th, CCP Games announced that EVE Online broke the Guinness world record for the most expensive video game battle in history. EVE Online is an enormous free-to-play MMORPG that is set in the expanse of space. The game…