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Writings on current Role Playing Games, ranging from rough ideas to polished adventures. Discover insights, tips, and creative content to enhance your campaigns.
The Orion Accord and the Artemis Working Group
A Traveller RPG campaign framework for the Orion Accord and Artemis Working Group, including mythic faction lore, structures, doctrines, NPCs, campaign escalation, adventure hooks, rumors, and table-ready moves.
House Ventara of Alell and the Caerleon March
A Traveller RPG noble house profile for House Ventara of Alell and the Caerleon March, including heraldry, Orion Accord history, Lady Ysabel Ventara, Aurelius Holst, Ruie locations, factions, rumors, and campaign use.
Alpine Folklore and Frontier Law for The Märchen Engine
A Märchen Engine sourcebook-style post presenting the Alpine high country as a playable web of law, folklore, saints, hidden folk, beasts, and old bargains.
Black Rain Delivery
A Shadowrun adventure seed focused on convoy escort, toxic weather, pursuit, and hard choices during a dangerous delivery run.
Pest Control: A Shadowrun Mystery in Seattle
A Seattle-set Shadowrun adventure outline in which a routine Mr. Johnson job spirals into hidden murders, rogue AI intrigue, and hard moral choices for the runners.
Draft - Practical Hexcrawl Design and Procedures
A practical, procedural, table-driven approach to running engaging hexcrawls without getting lost in prep.
MCC Shaman Spell - R2D2 / C3PO Advertising Program Hologram Generation
Behold the R2D2/C3PO Hologram Conjuration, a potent MCC wetware incantation summoning the Star Wars ancients as living holograms. Transform gatherings with a hierarchy of holographic marvels, from rudimentary shadows ...
Menelaos 'Numbers' Primatos - A Shadowrun Ork Accountant
Meet Numbers, a Satyr Ork aiming to shake up California's nightclub scene by merging his business savvy with his passion for music and culture. Dive into his journey from an executive background to revolutionizing nig...
Memory of Myths and the Naming of 𒀀𒌋𒀯
Explore cosmic epochs through the gaze of 𒀀𒌋𒀯 (Aeon), merging myth, folklore, and the universe's vastness, highlighting existence's fleeting nature. 𒀀𒌋𒀯, a timeless entity, seamlessly integrates into any TTRPG, enrich...
Ahmed ibn Yusuf - Porter at Bayt al-Ḥikmah
Character Concept of Ahmed ibn Yusuf, a porter who works for the Great Library in Baghdad in 1258.
Mehmet Al-Mansur - Former Member of the Sultan's Sihirbaz Yeniçerileri
Character Concept of Mehmet Al-Mansur, an Ottoman imperial refugee in Paris during the early 1920s, skilled in mystical arts and combat, dedicated to aiding magical beings' resettlement in the Americas.
Michael-JX - Moonwalking Through the Apocalypse
Michael-JX: Moonwalking Through the Apocalypse brings a legendary animatronic into your TTRPG campaign.
A TTRPG Game That Fits in a Few Toots - An Introduction to The Märchen Engine's Expert FAME Mechanics
A TTRPG Game That Fits in a Few Toots - An Introduction to The Märchen Engine's Expert FAME Mechanics
The Comprehensive Guide to Weapon Mechanics in Tabletop RPGs
A comprehensive guide to understanding weapon mechanics in the Märchen Engine, covering properties, materials, damage types, and classifications.
What is the Märchen Engine?
Welcome to the Märchen Engine, which outlines the core rules used by this Gaming System. This Introduction provides you with an overview of what the Märchen Engine is and how it works, while the later chapters show yo...
Gamma World Terrain Backdrops
A collection of images to use as backdrops for Gamma World, inspired by Pixel Art and Retro Video Games
The Right Set of Skills
Explore the essential skills needed in today's fast-paced environment. Learn how to adapt and grow in your career with the right set of skills.
What Makes a Human?
This draft on TTRPG Characters delves into the complex and multi-faceted nature of human identity, exploring it through the lenses of biology, philosophy, and culture. The author argues that being human is not solely ...
Getting an AI to Run Your Next TTRPG
How I have used AI Chatbots to help generate content and ideas for Table Top Role Playing Games.
Character Status, Communities, and Cryptic Alliances AKA How Gamma World Does Alignment
As characters have adventures, they will gain a reputation, fame, and status. You can track this growth in the campaign using Status Points. Status Points, like experience points, are accumulated into a new number on ...
Of Maps and Monsters, the Right way to Populate a World Part II
A continuation of the guide on RPG world-building, focusing on the complexities of monster types and their implementation in game design.
Power Cells from Gamma World in MCC & DCC
The following is an integration of rules for Gamma World's Power Cells with Mutant Crawl Classic.
Increasing in Rank in MCC with Archaic Alliances
The following is an integration of rules for Gamma World's Rank Advancement with Mutant Crawl Classic.
Gamma World Weapons in MCC & DCC
The following is a conversion of rules for Gamma World's Traditional weapons in Mutant Crawl Classic.
Firearms in MCC & DCC
The following rules are what I have collected from around the internet for the use of firearms in MCC & DCC. I will be playtesting these by converting a Gamma World module to MCC.
Mutations in Gamma World
During the days of Tech Level VI, a lot of time was spent by Artificial Intelligences and bioengineers to come up with ways to modify humans, animals, and plants. During this time all sort of transhumanism and animal ...
Doing Religions Right in DCC
Every role playing game that I have ever run into with the exception of Dogs in the Vineyard has done religions wrong in role playing games. These are my notes on how to get DCC closer to a relgious system that works ...
Of Maps and Monsters, the Right way to Populate a World Part I
A guide for game masters and designers on creating immersive worlds in role-playing games with effective use of maps and monsters.
Nukes and Radiation in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition for Gamma World
A comprehensive guide on implementing nukes and radiation in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition for Gamma World. Learn about radiation damage, new stats, and the effects of nuclear blasts in your game.
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Rules for Gamma World Weapons and Armor
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Rules for Gamma World Weapons and Armor.
Factions, Ideologies, and Religions in Role Playing Games
Explore the complexities of ideologies, factions, and religions in role-playing games. Understand how to create a multi-layered world that engages players in political, economic, and religious dimensions.
A Beginning
Ted Tschopp shares the first chapter of a new fiction project, rooted in memory and myth. A woman sorting through her grandfather’s papers discovers echoes of ancient stories, written in his hand but drawn from deeper...
Reprint - The Fellowship of the Ring
An in-depth look at how Tolkien fandom evolved during the making of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, from spy photos and online debates to questions of authenticity, myth, and cultural ownership. The article...