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I wish I had a writer like Linda when I was a magazine editor back in the 2000s!

Yikes. Even beyond the harassment, yikes. Speaking as someone who has worked in manufacturing, the stuff with the dust, spray room, branding machine and fire safety is all terrifyingly unprofessional and reckless.

The mistaken difference between "dragon hoard" and "dragon horde" can mean life or death to a party..

Greg Stafford's explanation was Improvisational radio theater.

BitD is a great way to look at the Crows - in fact, official BitD designer Pam Punzalan (team lead on the upcoming Dagger Isles supplement) wrote a BitD hack set in the Grishaverse - you can get it for PWYW on itch... https://thedovetailor.itch.io/one-more-notch

This is gibberish to me and has no context outside my mother culture. Please explain what you are talking about.

Chi literally means "breath" in my mother tongue, and the cultivation of chi is used to explain special abilities and powers in a wide range of fiction, from more grounded martial arts stories to the godlike feats and immortality attained in xianxia tales. In general, D&D stats like...

It's got Gubat Banwa, the Fantasy Southeast Asian tactical martial arts RPG, and Maharlika, the technomystic mecha RPG from the same creator! A great deal.

I'm fond of the Blades in the Dark breakdown of Action Ratings, but also games where you can have player-defined specialties such as their career or backgrounds that provide the sole or main bonus to a roll - like Cthulhu Dark or its descendants (Trophy, Cthulhu Deep Green or my own Pipedream...

Speaking as someone who has created magical social clubs for his campaigns (Pipedream RPG and a VtM LARP), this sound right up my alley!

As far as I know it's the only one. LANCER TACTICS is almost that. It is a videogame based on a TTRPG with some PbtA and Forged in the Dark influences in the non-combat portion of the rules, but since the developer is only going to focus on the tactical combat part of Lancer, we probably won't...

Hero's Journey is one structure that reminds of certain familiar pop culture stories like The Lord of the Rings, or maybe Star Wars. But it's far from a universal myth - Kishōtenketsu for example is an East Asian structure (consider the structure of many Studio Ghilbi films, for instance) and...

Then there's the middle ground that I quite like for low-complexity games like For the Queen or Magical Fury - chargen is part of play. In For the Queen, once the players have read the rule cards (a dozen sentences), they start drawing cards, and each drawn card is a prompt that asks them to...

Feng Shui famously had customizable archetypes where the player didn't have to do a lot of work. Also, Lady Blackbird - all pregens. It's totally a viable approach.

The Tian Xia books for Pathfinder are packed with great writers including some familiar Southeast Asian faces. Looking forward to this!

Glad to see Kevin Nguyen, Makapatag (Gubat Banwa) and Tan Shao Han representing RPGSEA!! We need more Southeast Asian voices in ttrpgs!

Gosh, it's a LANCER computer game on Kickstarter! The developer has done two other games on KS before, and this new one will adapt part of the TTRPG's mech catalogue (because the full list is too huge) for a tactical computer RPG with cool pixel art. So far they've fully funded in a few hours...

It isn't really easy to disentangle Game, Story or Character... For me, people need to have characters they love before anything else. Then the game needs to provide exciting activities that they want to do, supported by good rules (otherwise "make it up" feels empty and unimpactful). Story...

My recommendation is Night Witches by Jason Morningstar, where you play the pilots of the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment, the only all-woman regiment in WW2 (true story). By night, they flew obsolete biplanes to bomb the invading fascists. By day, they had to survive life in Stalin's Red...