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White space is useful for all sorts of things, not least among those as a way to reduce strain in parsing massive blocks of dense text...

I did this with Twilight Fables. While lots of people were interested in the book. No one wanted the cards. Maybe 2 people over the...

Confidence and ease go hand in hand. If a module's hard to run due to lack of clarity, page-flipping, too many buried details, poor...

Most of the time a crit fail/crit success results in a very favorable or very unfavorable occurrence in the fiction. One time a player...

In a d20 system, a natural 1 is usually always a fail and a natural 20 is usually always a success; though I skip rolling if I think the...

Defining Interactivity (from alldeadgenerations) is a post that's part of an ongoing series primarily on dungeon design, but this...

Proper color contrast; neon yellow text on a white background is hard to read; be aware of color blindness pitfalls too (Mork Borg gets...

You'll get there. Revising is where most stuff happens!

I'll tell you what, my friends: I've read probably 100+ modules over my decades of gaming, but I'm writing my first one, and it is an...

Bullet points, terse description, bolding/italics, some kind of keying identifier that draws attention to what is happening. Read it...

Yep. Pretty...gnarly.

People know a lot about mythological creatures! I like unicorn (and its cousin, 麒麟). A close second would be Tomte (Nisse).

Another favourite of mine is that East Asian creature who really needs a definitive D&D adaptation, the nine-tailed fox (gumiho in...

Agreed. Luke was right. And he was winning when he was calm and controlled. It was when he lost faith in himself and in his father and...

They didn't turn the Emperor or the stormtroopers or the TIE pilots. The point is more that redemption is possible and it is worth...