2025: Gaming Year in Review
As 2025 draws to a close and I take stock of the past year, I feel this year has been challenging. Nationally, internationally, the…
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RPG a Day 2025 Day 14: Mystery
Today’s prompt for RPG a Day 2025 is Mystery, and mysteries are hard! All facetiousness aside, running a tabletop role-playing game mystery can be…
The Stargazer’s Legacy
A while back I decided not to talk about unfinished tabletop RPG projects any more since they more often than not went up in…
ChatGPT and Game Design
Using AI to create art or texts is all the rage right now. But it’s also a highly controversial topic. These AI models are…
Getting Children into Gaming
There are a few popular games for getting younger children into gaming. The most successful is probably Hero Kids by Justin Halliday, with Amazing…
FTL and Setting Design
As I am currently working on my own settings for use with Traveller or the Cepheus Engine, I’ve thought about faster-than-light (FTL) travel and…
The Cepheus Engine As Multi-Genre RPG?
First and foremost the Cepheus Engine like the game it tries to emulate, Traveller, are science fiction roleplaying games. But instead of being limited…
Alternate Character Creation Rules For Cepheus
Traveller (and Cepheus for that matter) are (in)famous for their character creation. Being able to die during character creation is one of the quirks…
Terrible Habits
Amongst other things I am an indie game developer and a hobbiest programmer. This means that I often find that if I cannot find…
Raising Azazel (a FUDGE game)
So you may remember that I wrote at the start of November that I was going to do the NaGaDeMon challenge this year. I…
Raising Azazel Fudge Character Creation
Character Creation Basics I will confess that creating this NagaDemon game has meant I have read the Fudge 1995 rules in detail for the…
Demonic Fudge anyone?
I will not be posting a NagaDemon post every day, this is not an RPGaDay sort of thing but as this is the first…
Remember that Wild West game?
Some of you will remember me playing around with the idea of a wild west game using playing cards in place of dice and…
When Orcs Are Real
I have come up against an interesting challenge this week. As some of you will remember I am working on a Wild West game.…
Relativity!
Today I finished reading “Time for the Stars”, a classic young-adult science-fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. You might be asking yourselves now why…
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…
D20 FUTURE HEROIC ALIEN SPECIES CONVERSION
Hello readers! Here is hoping you had a fun Halloween and are enjoying November. For those that have reached out over social media, thank…
Good night to the Devil
This will be my last post on Devil’s Staircase for a while. It is not going away, quite the opposite, but I will tell…
Devil’s Staircase Aces High
This time I want to get some ideas out about character progression. I am certainly not a fan of games that use levels and…
That’s kinda fancy gun work you got there Mister!
Before we start shooting guns out of the bad guy’s hand or put a bullet through a silver dollar tossed into the air I…