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2026

The Second Person January 9, 2026

2025

Question & Answer Rules December 28, 2025
Good Encounter Tables December 5, 2025
Oddly-Shaped Tables November 26, 2025
Stupid Sexy Magic November 21, 2025
Action Points November 18, 2025
Trade Deal: Starter Kit for Reviews November 16, 2025
Bored of the Tables November 6, 2025
GM Journeys October 29, 2025
Folding Rules October 14, 2025
Reading the Dice October 2, 2025
Playtesting BIND September 29, 2025
Scheduling Again August 28, 2025
Review: Exploding Kittens August 28, 2025
Only a Company Can Make an RPG July 31, 2025
Scot Hexes July 19, 2025
The Tale of Toad, Part III July 18, 2025
The Tale of Toad, Part II July 18, 2025
The Tale of Toad, Part I July 18, 2025
Review: Pathfinder July 12, 2025
Machine Generated Images vs Photoshop July 2, 2025
Vampires Speak Wallachian June 11, 2025
The Turk June 8, 2025
Roll for Charisma May 19, 2025
The Joys of Automation May 10, 2025
The Age of Light May 3, 2025
Balancing Mana Points April 6, 2025
Music in RPGs April 5, 2025
No Class System is a Good System April 1, 2025
Show Me in the Module March 5, 2025
BIND's Story Point System March 1, 2025
Airtime over Balance February 27, 2025
System Recommendations February 17, 2025
Making Money with an Open Source RPG February 7, 2025
Onepage Dungeon Reviews February 4, 2025
Theft as Mnemonics February 3, 2025
The Bluff System February 3, 2025
Tactical Systems are Tacky January 29, 2025
Why Jaquays? January 25, 2025
Initiative Does Nothing January 24, 2025
BIND's Magic, Part I January 17, 2025
RPG Blog Highlights January 16, 2025
Weaving Stories January 15, 2025
The Quantum Ogre and the Massive Idiot January 6, 2025
Terms of Cthethics January 6, 2025
Shallow System Excuses January 6, 2025
Cavern Mnemonics January 4, 2025

2024

Treasure Type P December 24, 2024
LaTeX + Git vs Google Docs December 12, 2024
The Beauty of the World of Darkness System December 8, 2024
Recipes for Your Table December 8, 2024
Onepage Dungeons December 7, 2024
Group Indecisions November 28, 2024
LaTeX vs InDesign November 22, 2024
Parallel Actions November 8, 2024
Data Hoarding with Friends November 4, 2024
Generating Hex Maps October 26, 2024
Racial Languages October 15, 2024
Random Encounters Disarm Chekov's Gun September 14, 2024
Having a Bash at Travel in BIND September 10, 2024
The Bluff System August 3, 2024
Problem Player: An Apology July 29, 2024
You are Strange July 26, 2024
World of Darkness Prompts July 1, 2024
When Systems Matter June 20, 2024
Musings on the OSR June 6, 2024
Against Collectors June 5, 2024
Extrapolation & Necessity May 30, 2024
The Module Decalogue May 17, 2024
An Archipelago as a Dungeon May 12, 2024
The Limited Shapes of Our Bodies May 4, 2024
Designing around Spike-Traps April 20, 2024
The A,D&D Nymph Image March 29, 2024
Open Source RPGs March 29, 2024
The Cost of Shared Narrative February 24, 2024
Machines Learn Unlearning to Pole-Dance February 19, 2024
Print it Yourself February 9, 2024
A Real-Time Vampire Chronicle February 5, 2024
A Proposal for a Gothic Setting, Based on Ravenloft February 5, 2024
What RPGs Do That Video Games Cannot February 3, 2024
Realistic Spelunking February 1, 2024
Consumers of BIND January 30, 2024
Generic Fantasy is Great for RPGs January 28, 2024
Móęrk Bąrg Review January 26, 2024
What's Great about Dice-Pools January 24, 2024
Adventure Styles January 3, 2024

2023

The Problems with D&D December 30, 2023
Running an RPG in Real-Time, All the Time December 26, 2023
Small RPGs December 13, 2023
Windows & Wizards December 9, 2023
Nobody Plays by the Rules December 2, 2023
How to Write a Tabletop RPG December 2, 2023
RPGs Should be Unfair November 28, 2023
One Roll Only November 25, 2023
Railroading: The Definitive Definition November 8, 2023
Subraces Should be Cultures November 5, 2023
Parallel Rules and BIND October 26, 2023
The Metaphysics of Becoming a Tree October 13, 2023
Happily Ahistorical October 12, 2023
Options in Religions August 8, 2023
I Want Fewer RPG Systems August 4, 2023
Minimal Verisimilitude in RPGs August 1, 2023
On the Necessity of the Four Classical Elements July 27, 2023
Goblin Slayer: The Problem Solver July 1, 2023
How I Made BIND's Monsters June 27, 2023
Writing for the GM June 26, 2023
Why BIND Rules Don't Allow Players to Go for the Eyes June 7, 2023
New Handouts April 29, 2023
Sleeping in a Dungeon April 28, 2023
Dungeons Need More Space April 23, 2023
No Introduction Necessary April 22, 2023
Minified vs Minimalist Rules March 19, 2023
What the RPG Community Should Steal from FOSS March 17, 2023
Deathless RPGs March 2, 2023
Drinking Game Design February 9, 2023
Spreadsheets are Great January 27, 2023
Community Assumptions on Source Files January 19, 2023
The Game Plan for an Open Source RPG January 15, 2023
I Warned Ye! January 15, 2023
Always Say the Target Number January 8, 2023
Ordinal Fallbacks January 1, 2023

2022

Word Game: Ghost December 21, 2022
White Wolf Devlog 6: Changeling December 6, 2022
RPG Faff Metric December 4, 2022
Why You Might Open-Source Your RPG December 3, 2022
Dualism in a World of Darkness November 28, 2022
Representing Star Trek Babble in an RPG November 23, 2022
Real Time Passing Between Games November 21, 2022
TikTok Killed the Vampires November 13, 2022
White Wolf Devlog 5: The Umbra November 3, 2022
White Wolf Devlog 4: The Arena October 16, 2022
White Wolf Devlog 3: Attributes October 11, 2022
White Wolf Devlog 2: Specializations and Expertise October 9, 2022
White Wolf Devlog 1: Merits & Flaws October 8, 2022
An Automatic Dungeon Generator October 2, 2022
I Don't Run Session Zero September 10, 2022
Balancing White Wolf September 5, 2022
System Realism Matters September 2, 2022
Two Ubiquitous Fantasy Characters August 18, 2022
My Session One August 11, 2022
Finding the OSR July 22, 2022
Highlights from the WoD Contest Game July 13, 2022
Systems and Genre Representation July 12, 2022
Show, Don't Tell July 8, 2022
White Wolf Combat Sucks June 30, 2022
Fixing White Wolf's Combat June 30, 2022
I Want Realistic Dragons June 14, 2022
I Wish Neo-Pronouns had been Adopted May 17, 2022
Fate Points in BIND April 12, 2022
Ideas People March 26, 2022
The OGL is not Open March 22, 2022
What Systems Do March 21, 2022
If You Want to Understand an RPG System, Remove the Dice March 5, 2022
Random Character Generation March 1, 2022
The Open Source RPG Dream January 30, 2022
BIND January 20, 2022
Return to White Plume Mountain January 12, 2022
Rune Quest is Awful January 10, 2022

2021

Trouble at Grogg's November 20, 2021
Don't Have a Fun Game January 20, 2021