• I recently ran Winter’s Daughter for the first time using Knave 1e. This was partially intended as a way to keep my party busy as I caught up with setting prep for our campaign but it also provided me with the chance to run more of the material I’ve been hoarding for the past few…


  • Onboarding New Players

    Something I’ve had to give a lot of thought to is how to go about bringing new players up to speed on how my home game works, what they an expect of me and what I expect from them. I’m currently running Worlds Without Number, an OSR system that’s on the crunchier side of things…


  • Opening My RPG Table

    I’ve been running a dungeon crawling sandbox campaign of Worlds Without Number for a month or two now and things have been going well. So well, in fact, that I’ve decided to pull the trigger and try to convert my current game to an open table. This was partially motivated by my players’ busy schedules…


  • Something that has really captured my imagination since I’ve heard about old-school D&D is the idea of a megadungeon. The idea of running or playing in one is exciting, and as part of my hope of transition my current game to an open table I want to craft my own. It can be hard to…


  • The magic college or boarding school is a pretty awesome idea, as evidenced by just how many authors have tried their hands at it. It also makes for a compelling backdrop for a dungeon in a tabletop RPG, although that comes with some caveats. I typically play games in the D&D family (and mostly old-school…