Turning existing movie, book or TV show franchises into tabletop roleplaying campaigns isn’t always a great idea. In many cases the world depicted in these kinds of media exist only to facilitate one...
A while back I bought a used hardcover copy of Open Legend. According to its subtitle it’s an open-source RPG which is right up my alley. I basically bought it on a whim....
So you have watched a season of Critical Role (or another high profile Actual Play series by professional actors/voice actors) and now your are interested in joining a tabletop roleplaying game? Great! But...
For years I have been dealing with a rather severe case of option or rather decision paralysis. As you probably know I own way too many roleplaying games. I love reading new games...
Today I stumbled upon an article by Jeff Rients in which he writes about a rather lengthy Medium post by Dr. Clio Belle Weisman, a psychotherapist and social research scientist. She did a...
Just a few minutes ago I noticed a couple of posts on social media about a news article on the site Pandaily (which I have never heard before). I did some googling and...
A lot if not the vast majority of articles, blog posts, videos about roleplaying games are focused on giving advice to game masters. From my experience and observations, most people writing or producing...
Back in 2022 I bought the “The Fantasy Trip” bundle on Bundle of Holding. Before that I have been aware of the system and read the clone of TFT released by Dark City...
Happy New Year everyone! While looking through my posts from the last two years or so I noticed a disturbing trend: I make a lot of plans but they often if not most...
A while back I decided not to talk about unfinished tabletop RPG projects any more since they more often than not went up in flames shortly thereafter. But this time I am so...
D&D: Honor Among Thieves is the latest movie based on the fan-favorite tabletop roleplaying games. While the older movies were in the so-bad-its-good category of B-movies, Honor Among Thieves is actually a decent...
Back in the early days of the hobby tabletop roleplaying games came in the form of books or small booklets, sometimes as part of a boxed set. With the advent of the internet...
Over the years I have played quite a few tabletop roleplaying games and I’ve read many more, but there’s one game or rather a series of games which have become my all-time favorite...
The more I read about WotC’s plans for their upcoming virtual tabletop software, the more I understand what the whole OGL 1.1 was all about. I am also pretty sure that people in...
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 trained using existing art which more often than not...
Even before I knew what pen & paper roleplaying games were, I was a fan of computer RPGs. Among the first titles I ever played from the genre were The Bard’s Tale and...
Wizards of the Coast managed to do something extraordinary. In just a few days they managed to alienate a large portion of third-party publishers and some of their former business partners and alienated...