Random encounters are good, but rolling them by the book sucks. After you've rolled to check  if there's an encounter, you have to r...

As is in Errant , armour works like so. Armour gives you AP, essentially an extra pool of damage you can take before it gets to your HP. The...

Inspired by Nick's POSER Manifesto  and also this dumb tweet . Thanks Nick, for teaching me the importance of being shit. DUNG MAN...

This is a series of loose meditations around the purpose and nature of "rules" in D&D-like RPGs. What I say here could proba...

Well, it finally happened. Carrion is rife with vampires. They're crawling out of the woodwork. One of my players finally got turne...

these are cerebral and inchoate thoughts mostly related to my thesis that are going here because they have theoretical implications about h...

I'm quite a fan of character builds, as are many of my players. The crunch and system bloat that comes with character builds in 3.X...