For my followers who can easily get to Canterbury in the southern UK on August 8-10, the local game shop is hosting a convention on the Uni...

At London's one-day convention Dragonmeet last weekend I ran one of the One Page Dungeon Contest winners from this year, " The Lant...

It's always an awkward moment in any role-playing game when the game master has to represent two, or worse more, non-player characters t...

Dragonmeet , London's one-day gaming convention, is coming up on the 5th December and unlike last year I can actually attend. It is my t...

Recent discussions started by Kiel and continued on G+ have got me thinking about why completely separating an adventure's text from it...

I'm not sure if I'll get around to recounting the latest misadventure of the Muleteers, but there's a couple of posts to be had ...

Pure body horror only goes skin deep. Although Junji Ito's stories sometimes try for little more than pure gross-out (most successfully ...

All right. I have taken the step of registering my 52 Pages Old School Basic/3E hybrid game run with GenCon. It will be August 15 (Friday) 1...

Here's how it probably starts. There's a slip between the input and the output of the Gamemaster-In-The-Middle . The adventure wri...

In fiction writing you may have heard of the said-book-ism   -- the overly descriptive dialogue synonym that went out of style around the 19...

Here is a representative treasure description written by Gary Gygax. It's from Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. The jade coffer is wo...

For myself and many others, writing-for-a-living places great importance on getting it right . Doing any kind of research, engineering, tech...

In theory: The Dungeon Master keeps careful track of time as the party explores the dungeon, minute by minute, and at prescribed intervals h...

Here is page 52 of the 52 pages. (Page 51 still needs to be finished, the sample adventure, but we are almost there folks.) Anything o...

The Lichway ( previously ) belongs to that admirable class of adventure writing, where engaging ideas are presented with just enough detail ...

Justin Alexander's blog posts about " Jaquaying the dungeon " are often cited in support of building non-linear pathways into ...

I posted a while back , about whether GMs should insist that players only say things that their characters would actually say. Now, in house...

I learned today about one of the weirder concepts of Stanley Milgram, the social psychologist who did that ( possibly dubious ) electric sho...

Brendan's comment on my previous post had me going back to the first AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide trying to pinpoint exactly ho...

Recently playing a little of the "roguelike" computer game Brogue , I was struck by one aspect of its stripped-down design. You ar...