How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 2: The Caverns of Thracia
(Continued from Part 1, which looked at the state of TTRPG dungeon design pre-Jaquays. These two posts are cleaned upContinue Reading
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How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easierContinue Reading
Pathika Devlog #2: Creating Your Own Adventurer City
In the last devlog, I talked about the practical design problems I sought to solve in my campaign by creatingContinue Reading
Pathika Preview #1: Unique Mechanics
(Quick ad interruption: my new game Nielsenauts is out in print at the Space Penguin Ink store. Please buy itContinue Reading
Chrono Trigger: Kids See God Sometimes
I want to talk about that scene. If you’ve played Chrono Trigger, you know the one: the one where theContinue Reading
Pathika Devlog 1: The problems Pathika solved for my game
The material I wrote for Pathika was not originally intended to be put in a setting book. Rather, I wroteContinue Reading
An Introduction to Pathika
As I mentioned last week, I’ve spent the last three years working on a big “city” book for D&D-adjacent gamesContinue Reading
Things to Come
If you’ve been following this blog since it started back in 2019, you probably noticed that I’ve disappeared for aboutContinue Reading
Kidnap the Archpriest: a Heist Module You Need to Run
Quick Reading Guide: Elevator Pitch Highlights Content and Organization What I Did With It Conclusion Further Reading I run twoContinue Reading
What does diegesis have to do with games?
Quick Reading Guide: There has been some chatter about the concept of diegesis in the OSR recently, partially instigated byContinue Reading
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