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I write a newsletter to fight against my weapons-grade depression. This is from that newsletter. There is a Danish concept called Hygge (Hoo-GA!) which roughly translates to comfort. It's where you simply have an open invitation to some close friends. You have blankets and candles, food on the...

I'm trying to come up with more powerful villians and I was watching a documentary on cults on good ol' Netflix. Having a cult infiltrate a small town or city could be a great hook, but the cult has to be dangerous. If it's a cult about making sure there are flowers in every windowsill, that...

Excerpt from the newsletter Burn the Tavern Down. This is What We are Here For I had a request to talk about problem gamers. And I started doing some legwork and research on problem gamers and I have to say wow there is a lot of content out there. One thing I found missing is a nice Session...

Backstories for Your Character A lot of people ask me about when they should provide the backstory for their character. Many people—and I am the guiltiest—show up with their starting character and oh the backstory they have. Pages on pages. And then they take a bullet or arrow and alas, they are...

I’m playing a game on Apple Arcade called Outlanders and I have to cut down a million trees to keep my village going. A million! What if lumberjacks or miners were simply doing their job and they inadvertently let something out—something druids or whomever wanted to keep tucked away long ago...

In nearly every setting you have, there are going to be orphans. And an orphanage can be ripe pickings for your adventurers and you as the creator of their stories. Maybe a necromancer is picking off orphans and well, let's just say it's not a good situation. Can your rogue hire some of them...

A little excerpt from my micro, oh so tiny newsletter : Burn the Tavern Down. I’m always trying to think of problems that aren’t necessarily a monster, but something that looks like a small inconvenience, but ends up wrecking a place. Think about if a well gets poisoned. Ugh. Terrible. No...

I've had weapons grade depression since I was 16 (I'm 46). Like terrible, terrible depression. It comes and goes, but when it shows up, it's bad. So to fight it I'm actually going to start playing D&D more (among other games) but also I'm writing this little, tiny newsletter for D&D just to...