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It's not a new blog, but it is a new blog on Substack. After blogging off and on for the last 15 years or so, most recently on the Ramen Sandwich Press website, I have decided to take "I Think We've Been Playing It Wrong" to the Substack platform. As always, I plan to focus on playing games and...

Ramen Sandwich Press is back on Kickstarter with Severed Heads and Broken Blades, a compact, yet flavorful system for pumping up critical hits and fumbles in fantasy RPG combat. It's almost all tables, the results are self-explanatory and the system should fit seamlessly into your D&D 5E or...

Ramen Sandwich Press is back on Kickstarter and coming back to Pathfinder with two more location modules in our Found by the Way series: Path to Orek and Path to the Royal Tombs. They're set in the same place and among related characters, so you can run them as a linked pair as well as...

Ramen Sandwich Press is back on Kickstarter with two more Places by the Way location modules, compatible with D&D 5E: Tomb Raiders of Orek and Into the Royal Tombs. They can be run in conjunction, with the latter as sequel to the former, or by themselves. Loosely inspired by the ancient Egyptian...

Just a reminder: Even as we reach out to the Pathfinder community in our Kickstarter for The Book of Hidden Paths, the campaign also has something for D&D 5E enthusiasts. If you missed our previous Kickstarter, for The Book of Chance Meetings, you have one more shot because we're offering our...

The Book of Chance Meetings brought new and deeper insights in to how to incorporate random encounters into your 5E campaign. Soon, Ramen Sandwich Press will do the same for Pathfinder! We’ve been working hard on The Book of Hidden Paths for the last six months, and it’s almost ready for...

The Book of Chance Meetings, my deep dive into random encounters in D&D 5E, was a great success on Kickstarter this spring. Now, Ramen Sandwich Press has rolled it out so that it’s available on a variety of e-commerce platforms to everyone who missed the campaign! I talk about this in the...

After a very successful run on Kickstarter, Ramen Sandwich Press is rolling out The Book of Chance Meetings, my deep dive into random wilderness encounters in D&D 5E. Some early rave reviews are already in from our backers, and you can check them out here! It’s now available in PDF through...

Our Kickstarter campaign for Book of Chance Meetings, a 5E-compatible, OGL-compliant supplement on random encounters, is almost ready. Check out the preview and pledge early and often and get a 30% discount off of our estimated cover price! Book of Chance Meetings is a deep dive into random...

Lots of news to talk about, but let's lead off with a milestone: We just launched a Kickstarter campaign to support the 10th location module in our Places by the Way series compatible with D&D 5E and our Found by the Way series for Pathfinder (2E and 1E). Its working title is Exiles of...

Catching you up on the latest from Ramen Sandwich Press: Anyone who trespasses on royal land can expect trouble. Entering the Paladin Queen's Forest is easy enough, but getting back out again — not so much. Our advice is to watch out for bears — and did we mention the basilisk? Yeah, there's a...

Yesterday, we launched on Kickstarter to support the eighth location module in our Places by the Way/Found by the Way series for 5E and Pathfinder (this one will be compatible with both 2E and 1E). So far, we have 31 backers, which is the most we've ever gotten on Day 1 of a campaign! As for...

We're back on Kickstarter, this time to drum up support for the seventh in our ongoing series of location mini-modules for D&D 5E and Pathfinder! This entry takes your party to the village of Thornbriar, where the shepherds who graze their flocks on the surrounding hillsides are beginning to...

Ramen Sandwich Press is pleased to announce that Path to The Demon's Veins, our sixth Found by the Way location module for Pathfinder, is now available in PDF through DriveThru RPG. When the dwarves of The Demon's Veins mine hacked their way into the side of a mountain searching for mithral...

Ramen Sandwich Press' Places by the Way series of location modules for D&D 5E has just returned to Faerun with A Demon in the Spine of the World, its sixth Forgotten Realms module. A Demon in the Spine of the World describes a small mining colony founded by dwarves burrowing into the side of the...

Ramen Sandwich Press is back on Kickstarter, and we're soliciting support for the sixth in our series of location modules for D&D 5E and Pathfinder. The Demon's Veins describes a fledgling mining colony and the demon who lives next door. Can this small settlement of dwarves find mutual...

The dwarven smith lives! Those of you who follow Ramen Sandwich Press already know that Places by the Way #5: The Dwarven Smith's Tome has had a longer road to publication than we'd expected. But all of our Kickstarter backers have had their rewards shipped, and the Standard Edition of the...

Our Kickstarter to launch a series of adventure/location modules for Pathfinder called Found by the Way was a great success! With the rewards from that campaign filled, now it's time to move forward and pre-sell Found by the Way #5: Path to Jarnborg on Kickstarter. The village of Jarnborg was...

And funded, too! We're pleased to announce that our Kickstarter campaign for The Dwarven Smith's Tome, the fifth of our Places by the Way series of location/adventure modules for D&D 5E is now live — and it funded almost exactly 24 hours after its debut! The Dwarven Smith's Tome describes a...

Ramen Sandwich Press is pleased to announce that we’ve launched a Kickstarter to support a line of location/adventure modules for Pathfinder OGL! We’re testing the market for a new Pathfinder-oriented product line called Found by the Way. As with our successful Places by the Way series of...