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 I've been running a Swords & Wizardry game at home the last few weeks that has been possibly one of the most fun, most campaigns g...

  Earlier this month, I started a campaign of Death in Space with a few friends. Life and scheduling conflicts have forced me to put playi...

I have been dealing with general chaos, sick family, family functions, friends in need, and an endless series of stressful diversions this m...

 Over the past two weeks I have created a simple D&D retro-clone called Heroes & Homelands that is intended to be easily copy/paste...

 So, now that I have a mechanical framework, let me share with you what I have so far in terms of the campaign design. (Unless you are someo...

  So I am starting a new campaign this weekend, and I have an idea for the world that I want to develop. I've decided that, in order to ...

Setting map created with Campaign Cartographer 3  I'm doing things a bit out of order here. I have quite a few articles planned, and fin...

One of the great things about sharing a world that you're creating with others is that the way others interact with it, the characters t...

World-Building as a Hobby World-Building is a fairly old hobby. There's a form of make believe that as we come formalized over the las...

My map of Wonkatonkwa County, Created using Campaign Cartographer Poster-sized version below. I've been going all-out trying to get Unde...

 Summer has come and gone. And like many others, I'd hoped I create more content than I did. Especially here on Welcome to the Deathtr...

I want to amplify a topic recently posted in Bradford C. Walker's substack  entitled Clubhouse Row (Part One: A Proper D&D Club) : T...

I am addicted to the process of world-building. Creating new places with interesting cultures, unusual people, and compelling disasters is s...

I've recently experienced a severe stall in my Silver Gull campaign.. a couple of my players suffer from chronic illnesses that have b...

Many of my players don't like downtime. They want a fast-paced adventure where they know danger is around every corner. They prefer the ...

 When I was a kid, I taught myself to play Dungeons & Dragons from the Red Box. I have a lot of praise for the design of the Mentzer B...

This is part two of my discussion of my experience with the AI game master and role-playing game Day Tripper. See my previous article for a ...

 I have been playing various OSR games with Stephen Smith, a true gaming mad scientist for three years now, and as we are coming up on a clo...

When I set out to build Deathtrap Lite , one of the core ideas I had in designing the game was that I wanted it to be compatible with most T...

 I'm going to spend the next few articles talking about Deathtrap Lite . This little OSR game was my personal passion project in 2021....