Like a spectre that moans about dead problems, Sci-Show have made a YouTube video on the deep Mathematics of scheduling an RPG night. Sci-Show on D&D Scheduling Of course, the Greek-laden formula is just a vector to tell the audience about Maths, but I still can't approve, because I couldn't follow any of the Maths. So …

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Fancy a game of football on Saturdays? I mean all Saturdays. Every one, for the next few months. We need you to join a pivotal part of the game. This is you. This is how you sound when you ask people to play D&D. You can't miss one game, or we'll have to call the whole thing off for that week and no-one will be able …

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Using real-world time in RPGs has worked out great in my last fantasy campaign, so I'm thinking of using it for a Dark Ages: Vampire Campaign. I want to create a game where every single neonate in the city has a player. I want to see a dozen players, all with a chatroom online, called 'Elysium', shooting the shit, …

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Last year, I got excited about the idea of tracking realworld time over downtime . Shortly after I implemented it in my campaign, and it served the entire table, very well. The Perspective Flip Real-time RPGs look strange if you look at them from the wrong end. Let me turn it around for you: The players are just anyone …

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A hundred paces down the dark tunnel, you see dozens of goblins dancing round a fire and singing about eating anything that moves. At this point the crew begin to plot. Could we just stay here and shoot at the goblins? We should be able to get a load of arrows off in three rounds. If we run back to where we avoided …

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