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I'm running games over Zoom, and my players don't have Fate dice but want to roll their results. So I came up with the following adjusted...

Someone on Facebook just asked for recommendations for a "space opera Star Trek" game, and of course there were all the usual suggestions...

Tonight I ran Low Fantasy Gaming with a group of friends (over Roll20), using the Midlands setting for the system. I've been curious...

Recently on the various forums, I’ve discovered that I seem to be getting through modules much faster than most of my fellow gamemasters....

Thanks to quarantine, I've had plenty of time to indulge in a project that has interested me for some time: a grand unified theory of RPG...

For some time now I've noticed that the array of PC characteristics in D&D (and its many OSR clones) tends to match its pattern of...

The gods will fight the gods, and throw their spears at mortals down below. They often help the faithful, though, And that is all we need...

I'm running a 5e campaign on Thursday now, but it was arranged via Meetup, and I had literally no idea if I was going to get one player...

If I could combine a whole bunch of games to make the ideal OSR experience, here's how I would personally do it. SETTING: THE NIGHTMARES...

D10 VARIANT SKELETONS 1. Skeletons with bombs in their chests, coated with tar: they run and stick themselves to foes, then explode. 2....

I was curious tonight about what constituted a standard amount of treasure across a dungeon/module in the original Old School games, back...

As a follow-on to this popular post, here are twenty more rhyming riddles that I hope you will profit from reading. As before, the...

A D&D character I created has the trait, "I like to memorize poetry." And as soon as I chose this, I thought, "Uh-oh. I'd better write...

The original "John" (aka John the Cursed, aka Unwilling John, aka John of the Thousand Tasks) must have been a truly terrible person,...

We are all familiar with the bog-standard “magic missile” spell: a handful of comet-shaped bolts of white energy that stream from a...

[This is an essay I wrote way back in 2003 when I was falling in love with D&D 3E but was still irritated by the clumsy and nonsensical...

Here are 20 classic rhyming-type riddles suitable for most fantasy games, in that they do not presume scientific knowledge (such as the...

This is a ink to a 10-page handout I gave to my players before a game of Masters of Umdaar. I missed one salient fact (that whoever...

Here's my attempt to dramatically abstract Traveller-style starship builds in a way that avoids almost all of the math and charts. This...

MUMMEROY'S LAPIDARY BORROWING [Summons a 150-200 pound stone, temporarily. ] In the plainest terms, Mummeroy's Lapidary Borrowing summons...