This article  in the website of record -- the New York Times -- uses the generic form "D&D" but I have to give special props t...

The stories of John Cheever are said to epitomize late 20th Century middle-class life in New York and its suburbs. But he's got much mor...

As the action in my Band of Iron campaign promises to shift to the fake-Mediterranean island of fake-Malta if Malta were brachiated instea...

Betraying your players is difficult. Nevertheless, I thought the most reasonable course for a band of pirates the players had been allying w...

For the past six or so sessions I have been DM'ing the Band of Iron in an adventure set in an ancient compound on a remote, mountainous ...

Ben Robbins' "story roleplaying game" Microscope   is actually more like a writers' workshop exercise - but a very good on...

It turns out cities are not just the most dangerous adventure , but also the most bewildering, and least rewarding. Where they are now, m...

Continuing the  account of diabolic temptation ... 4. Gluttony. The concept: Six imp chefs, cooks and butlers throw dangerous and t...

Continuing the account of how I tried to tempt players, characters, and NPCs on the last two Nights of the Devil ... the tale of Night th...

How do you represent spiritual temptation in an adventure game? Well, you could play Pendragon RPG , a system that explicitly rates each c...

This afternoon I finished up a three-session adventure that did a lot of things my players and I were not used to. I think it was a success,...

And now, a few pages from our player Lui's sketchbook (creator of the wonderful T omb of the Iron God maps ). These illustrate sights a...

I'm much too kind to show the influence map the Band of Iron left behind in the northern lands. Let's just say that purple worm ex...

I'm reflecting on our last game session. It was one of those where not a lot of high adventure went down. Mostly it was about traveling ...

The intrepid Band of Iron ought to be wearing their knees ragged and knocking their foreheads blue, thanking the hell out of Mr. Tony Dowler...