Category: General

I’ve always been a fan of modularity and characterization in TTRPGs. It’s been the bread and butter of every gaming system I’ve built and is usually an option I try to shoehorn in if there aren’t enough options for my players to make the cool characters they envision. I...

There is one word you should pay particular attention to as a Game Master whenever you are running your game. It sounds dramatic, but this one word is often going to be the key to a mediocre game or a good game. It applies in the game world and in the meta of the game and keeping it front and...

I’m a word nerd. I’ve loved words since I started reading as a wee lass at the age of three, and still enjoy learning new ones.  In decades of playing, I’ve picked up some gaming lingo along the way through articles, books, conventions, conversations, gaming sessions, internet, shows such as Vox...

I sat down to think about how long it’s been since I wrote my review of Ironsworn. Turns out it was December of 2019, which explains why it feels like it was almost a decade ago. Time dilation aside, now that it’s 2022, there is a new game utilizing the same general structure and means of...

“What do you want to play?” “I don’t know, what do you want to run?” “I don’t know, what do you want to play?” Recently in one of my groups, someone offered to step up and take a turn running a game. He’d needed a break last year, so several other members of the group took turns running. Now he’s...

Everyone that runs games took their own route to becoming a gamemaster. While some folks (grognards back in the day but also new gamers even today) read the books and dive right in to run games, most of us had to see how games were run by starting out as players. It can be intimidating to take...