Ask The Readers August 29, 2025 β’ 10 min read RPG a Day 2025 Day 10: Origin Surprise! Earlier in the month, I missed two days, and I quickly remedied the situation and posted the Day 9 post two days late.…
Advice August 27, 2025 β’ 8 min read RPG a Day 2025 Day 27: Tactic Tactic, thatβs the prompt for today on Day 27 of RPG a Day 2015. A tactic is, according to Merriam-Webster, βa device for accomplishing…
Advice August 6, 2025 β’ 4 min read RPG a Day 2025 Day 6: Motive Welcome back to day 6 of RPG a Day 2025. Today’s topic is Motive. While I had a couple of ideas about what to…
D&D5e August 30, 2024 β’ 2 min read #RPGaDay2024, The other topicsβ¦ Days 25 to 30 Here it is, the last speed round of the month. It’s time to catch up on days 25 to 30. The regular daily posts…
D&D5e January 13, 2022 β’ 2 min read World in Progress Yesterday I picked up a copy of Wonderdraft, a really easy-to-use fantasy map creation tool, and started playing around with it. Why did I…
Advice November 22, 2019 β’ 1 min read Cepheus Subsector Generator About two and a half years ago I wrote a simple Python script which generates subsectors for me in the Cepheus Engine format. Why?…
Advice March 25, 2019 β’ 2 min read Kickstarter: RPG Smith This is just a quick update to let you folks know that the Kickstarter campaign to fund the RPGSmith (check out my article about…
Advice March 19, 2019 β’ 2 min read RPGSmith A couple of days ago, David Sumner, co-founder of RPGSmith got in touch with me and told me about his free web application. RPGSmith…
Improve Your Game August 22, 2018 β’ 4 min read Quietly beavering away Today’s RPGaDay2018 question is something like “Which non-dice systems appeal to you?” This made me think of a strange little RPG called ABS 12.…
Advice June 7, 2018 β’ 3 min read D&D Beyond Letβs face it: Wizard of the Coast’s track record when it comes to their digital offerings is – let’s say –Β spotty at best.…
Advice June 5, 2018 β’ 3 min read GM Binder You might have had the same problem as I faced a couple of days ago. I wanted to create a short primer for my…
Freebies April 1, 2018 β’ 3 min read Fudge Solo Engine In my recent post on Ghost Ops I made a reference to another project. That project was an automation of the One Page Solo…
Advice February 6, 2018 β’ 4 min read The Sound of Music Donβt worry, I donβt want to talk about the movie from 1965 , I just thought it made for a witty title. Instead I…
Game Design January 15, 2018 β’ 11 min read Distress Call, a Starfinder adventure on Kickstarter, an interview with the author. A couple of weeks ago I found about a new product in Kickstarter. With the success of Starfinder there are a slew of new…
Ask The Readers October 21, 2017 β’ 9 min read What about Starfinder? A reviewβ¦. In early 2010 one of my first posts on this blog was a review of Pathfinder. It is only fitting that seven years and…
Ask The Readers August 28, 2017 β’ 2 min read #RPGaDay2017 Day 27: βJust the basics maβam.β Better late than neverβ¦ again! And this is the last Sunday post for #RPGaDay2017. This is the home stretch, 4 days to go! It…
Advice August 26, 2017 β’ 5 min read #RPGaDay2017 Day 26: Wonderful toys! Hello and welcome to the last Saturday post for #RPGaDay2017. Weβre almost done. This month has flown by far too fast! Just like yesterday,…
Ask The Readers August 24, 2017 β’ 2 min read #RPGaDay2017 Day 24: No such thing as a free supplement This week of #RPGaDay2017is just flying byβ¦ Todayβs question is about freebies: August 24: Share a Pay-What-You-Want publisher who should be charging more. This…
Ask The Readers March 1, 2017 β’ 2 min read Sunglarβs Savage House Rules, Part 2! Hello dear reader! This is a follow up to a previous post where I shared a Savage Worlds House Rules document I was working…
Advice September 20, 2016 β’ 18 min read RPG Blog Carnival: Technology in my Games Greetings dear readers! Michael recently wrote about our efforts to revitalize the blog, and I think weβre off to a good start. He invited…