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Varying Religious Culture in TTRPGs and Worldbuilding

Varying Religious Culture in TTRPGs and Worldbuilding

The focus on bone magic that has dominated the blog for the past three weeks has made me start to think more about how we treat religion in D&D and other TTRPGs. Because of the "real" nature of the gods, who go around and directly intervene

Osteomancy for D&D

Osteomancy for D&D

Part of the Magical Practices Project Part of the Osteomancy series Last week, I walked you through my step-by-step thought process as I designed a homebrew thing (a class? A trait? A third title for a system that has not yet been fully laid out?) for a work-in-progress, still secret

Osteomancy: Design With Me

Osteomancy: Design With Me

Part of the Magical Practices Project Part of the Osteomancy series This is a little bit of a weird post to be writing for a few reasons. First, I don't know what I'm actually writing for this – I don't have a specific end design

The Power of Bones: History & Myth

The Power of Bones: History & Myth

Part of the Magical Practices Project Part of the Osteomancy series This article is going to kick off a big project and a short series that will be part of that project. Let's start with the big one: exploring real-world 'magical' practices (click here for the

PocketQuest 2024

PocketQuest 2024

Special bonus mini blog post today! Something that DriveThruRPG does every year now is to host something called PocketQuest, where short (under 25 pages) RPGs get developed, uploaded, and promoted. It's a super cool project (that I found out about too late to join this year, but definitely

Jesters & Fools: History & Myth

Jesters & Fools: History & Myth

Happy April Fool's Day! To celebrate this holiday, I wanted to write about the history of court jesters, a staple trope in popular imagination about the medieval European royal court, as well as share some resources for this classic image for use in your Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

Review: The Marketplace by Phalanx Games Design

Review: The Marketplace by Phalanx Games Design

I spent 2600 words last week trying to explain the basic principles underpinning the medieval feudal system. One big area that I did not really tackle was the existence of trade in the medieval world. The short version: there certainly was trade, but far less than the massive, globalized trade

Rethinking Fantasy Feudalism: History & Myth

Rethinking Fantasy Feudalism: History & Myth

Something that came up while I was writing last week's post on the Luddites is how hard it is to imagine a world that is based on any system other than capitalism. The motive of individual profit, the majority of individuals living in cities and towns, the ability

Captain Ludd: History & Myth

Captain Ludd: History & Myth

This post is all about a pretty major social movement in the early 1800s. While that is certainly a bit later than the medieval-ish historical epoch that a lot of fantasy draws from, the larger social point of the Luddites is one that can pretty easily be adapted for a

GM's Day 2024

Today is "International Game Master's Day"! To celebrate, this post is going to be a little different than what I normally write / have written / will continue to write. I'm going to talk about my own experience as a GM--consider this a supplement to the

Spider Broodmother: Design with Me

Spider Broodmother: Design with Me

CW: Discussion of Spiders, Discussion of Body Horror This post is a part of an ongoing Upgraded Monsters series. Click the link to check out all posts in the series. I'm hoping to expand beyond just showing links to work that I create. For this sort of article,

Worldbuilding Elements of a Western

Worldbuilding Elements of a Western

Readers of the blog may have noticed that both of my newly published homebrew work is centered very much on the Wild West. This is because my current home game is set in a fantasy version of the American West, so it has been dominating my personal homebrewing for the

Now Live! Quill Quest: Outlaw's Tale

Now Live! Quill Quest: Outlaw's Tale

💡Note: I'm publishing this post a few days early. I try to release on Mondays. However, when publishing on DriveThruRPG, there's normally a couple days delay between uploading the project and when it is cleared to be made public, particularly as a new seller. I uploaded

Review: Quill, a Letter-Writing RPG by Trollish Delver Games

Review: Quill, a Letter-Writing RPG by Trollish Delver Games

I'm very, very late to the party on this review. Quill: A Letter Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player won the title of "Best Free RPG" at the Indie RPG Awards all the way back in 2016. So I'm about 8 years too

Now Live! Rogue's Gallery: the Tusall Gang

Now Live! Rogue's Gallery: the Tusall Gang

My newest product is now available for download on Itch.io and DriveThruRPG. I would really appreciate your support – your purchases support the upkeep of the site and allow me to continue sharing my homebrew publicly. This product contains a collection of NPCs for use in your roleplaying game campaign.