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Steve Winter is rapidly heading to the upper echelon of my favorite RPG bloggers’ list, with articles about game design like this one: Effects vs. Meanings. Do we design from a desired effect to...

Robin Laws wrote a seminal piece in 2001 on the different types of players, the psychology underlying this deserves some serious thought from a design perspective Related, “System Does Matter“, the foundational document of...

March 4th was the fourth anniversary of the death of Gary Gygax. It has since been designated Dungeon Master’s Day, a day to thank game masters everywhere for the hard work they put in...

Troll in the Corner posts at length about how to organize an effective one-shot role playing session Let’s talk non-combat encounters! A lot of great ideas for in-game events that don’t (necessarily) involve fighting...

Another listing of recently discovered articles and resources of interest: How to create an old-world map in Photoshop Planewalker, the official fan site for the 2nd edition AD&D plane-hopping and Sigil-centric campaign setting Planescape...

Gleaned from internet wanderings after a week of absence (largely from r/rpg), to get these links out of tabs and into storage: Apps for playing music and sound effects during tabletop play Archive of...

A post on /r/rpg was discussing various alternatives to using expensive and time-consuming painted miniatures to represent characters in a tabletop RPG play space, and among the great ideas in the thread was using...

Inspired by this post, I’m currently designing an instrument for the tiefling bard I’m running in a 4th Edition D&D campaign at work. The idea is that it’s a cross between a lute and...