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I am feeling the Mediterranean Sword & Sorcery pull again. And RuneQuest is one of the names that always appears in my mind first. But I don't really know much about it, other than it being a very old game that had a lot of different edition with various side branches by different publishers...

I got the D35E game system for Foundry and it looks great. Now I want to make some changes to it, like deleting character classes and monsters that wouldn't be available in my game, and perhaps even editing the XP values needed for each level up. But when I unlock a compendium to make changes...

Dungeon23 seems to have been quite a big success and popular with a good number of people. But making a dungeon room every day for a full year isn't for everyone's style of running campaigns, so some of us on Mastodon have come up with Lore24. Writing a short description of one thing that is...

I've recently been going again through the old 3rd edition books Manual of the Planes, Expanded Psionics Handbook, and Lords of Madness looking for ideas for a campaign concept I am entertaining. There's a bunch of really interesting content in those books, and it occurred to me that I don't...

I've been a huge fan of the Dungeon Exploration and Wilderness Exploration of the early D&D editions for a good while now. But I've never really been a fan of the core game mechanics of D&D, like how you make attack rolls, how you cast spells, and how characters advance by discrete levels within...

I've been diving into the various sourcebooks for the Northeast Forgotten Realms again these days, and one thing was to take another look at the various given demographic numbers given for the various regions. At first look, it appears like the modern D&D approach were all the different peoples...

Back in the day when 3.5e was released, I absolutely loved it, like seemingly the vast majority of people. I dumped my old original rulebooks on ebay and was really happy with the new books that I kept using until eventually switching to Pathfinder. But in hindsight, the old 3rd Edition and 3.5e...

I've really become a fan of Dragonbane, with the rules being pretty much exactly what I've been looking for all these years. And I can't wait to take the game out for a first campaign. One thing that I really like, that greatly contrasts it from the various D&D editions I've run and played in...

Since I wrapped up my last 5th edition campaign 2 years ago, I've been on and off thinking about an idea for a Planescape campaign. And when the other options are AD&D and 3rd edition, 5th edition looks like a really good choice. At some point, I even made a whole bunch of conversions of more...

One thing that has been bothering me for years now about stories in RPG adventures and campaigns is that it overwhelmingly takes the form of a more or less complete script being written that covers all the relevant plot points and sequence of scenes before the players even enter the picture...

Since the original release of Star Wars, Space Scoundrels has basically become a subgenre of Space Opera in itself. And it's apparently quite popular in space adventure RPGs as well. Traveller, Stars Without Number, Coriolis, and Scum and Villainy all have it as one of their main play modes, and...

Yes, a Dark Sun sandbox campaign is funny. I also think that of all the D&D settings, Athas is particularly well set up for survival sandbox games. I've recently been getting back into playing a lot of Kenshi, a post-post-apocalyptic Sword Punk sandbox survival base building RPG videogame. You...

So Pendragon 6th edition has made it into the top most anticipated new games of the year for the third time in a row. And apparently, this year it's actually coming out. Pendragon has always been one of the games I knew existed and sounded pretty interesting and fun, but which never turned into...

I get it. It's a bit of a pun. It's cute. And they needed to announce something quickly as things were rapidly in motion. But I think ORC is probably the worst name for any kind of banner to unite medium and small RPG content creators under. Some people really don't care about it. Other people...

Since way back in AD&D 1st edition, D&D settings generally were assumed to be part of a planar system consisting of 17 outer planes, 14 inner planes (later reduced to 6), an astral plane, and a variable number of other planes bordering the material plane. In 3rd edition it was decided to throw...

The Forgotten Realms sourcebook FR6: The Savage Frontier from 1988 has for a long time been one of my greatest favorites. I believe that it is quite possibly the best campaign setting source that has ever been published by having large amounts of highly evocative material for GMs to inspire...

I've been recently diving deeply into the original 1st edition box and sourcebooks of the Forgotten Realms and discovered a setting that is really quite different from what it became over the following three decades with several timeline advanced, inclusion of classes and creatures from later...

Sometimes I see GMs saying that they think it's great to have the players find ways to make a character out of a randomly rolled set of ability scores and think, "yeah, that does really sound fun." I like how it mechanically communicates the idea that all PCs are just some random people trying...

I've been recently revisiting old Forgotten Realms sourcebooks from 1st edition and early 2nd edition and again falling for the charm of the world, but then quickly running into my usual problem of really not having any ideas for how to come up with things for the players to do that allows them...

Over the last years, I've come to really appreciate the originally released version of the Forgotten Realms before it got a pretty major overhaul for the new sanitized 2nd edition of AD&D. And occasionally I find my self seriously considering to running a campaign using the Grey Box and various...