Theory

2026

• The Second Person January 9, 2026

2025

• Scot Hexes July 19, 2025
• Vampires Speak Wallachian June 11, 2025
• Roll for Charisma May 19, 2025
• No Class System is a Good System April 1, 2025
• Airtime over Balance February 27, 2025
• Tactical Systems are Tacky January 29, 2025
• Why Jaquays? January 25, 2025
• Shallow System Excuses January 6, 2025

2024

• The Beauty of the World of Darkness System December 8, 2024
• Random Encounters Disarm Chekov's Gun September 14, 2024
• When Systems Matter June 20, 2024
• The Limited Shapes of Our Bodies May 4, 2024
• The Cost of Shared Narrative February 24, 2024
• What RPGs Do That Video Games Cannot February 3, 2024
• Realistic Spelunking February 1, 2024
• Generic Fantasy is Great for RPGs January 28, 2024
• What's Great about Dice-Pools January 24, 2024
• Adventure Styles January 3, 2024

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
• Railroading: The Definitive Definition November 8, 2023
• The Metaphysics of Becoming a Tree October 13, 2023
• Minimal Verisimilitude in RPGs August 1, 2023
• Dungeons Need More Space April 23, 2023
• No Introduction Necessary April 22, 2023
• Deathless RPGs March 2, 2023
• Spreadsheets are Great January 27, 2023
• Always Say the Target Number January 8, 2023

2022

• White Wolf Devlog 6: Changeling December 6, 2022
• RPG Faff Metric December 4, 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
• 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
• I Don't Run Session Zero September 10, 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
• 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
• Ideas People March 26, 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

2021

• Don't Have a Fun Game January 20, 2021