Celebrate and rejoice. Tribality is now a threenager. It’s that time where we test boundaries, drive our parents crazy, and throw the concept of naps to the floor while kicking and screaming. Okay – maybe that isn’t true for the ...

(Author’s note: this was a thought experiment to see how plants and plant parts that are used in everyday life could be incorporated into a game. This is part 1 of 3) A world’s flora can add interest to a ...

Inspiration can be gathered from looking at the larger planets in our solar system as locations to visit in your games. If you don’t want to modify your own world too much, you could have the PCs visit an interesting ...

I reviewed Tomb of Annihilation earlier this month and even before I read the book I wanted to run this adventure in Eberron. When Princes of the Apocalypse was released back in 2015, it contained an Appendix C: Adapting to ...

A few readers asked for fey-touched Backgrounds as part of my series on the fey (which will eventually be stitched together into a PDF that you can buy with real money, no fools’-gold need apply). I’ll be presenting six new ...

A look at the concept of technical debt in tabletop games.

Prophecy is a classic way to kick off the plot for any campaign setting, whether the PCs are the subject of the prophecy or the BBEG is. It can also show up as something that is constantly in the background, ...

Many fictional worlds duplicate earth in many ways, and gamers use earth as a template when making their own homebrew planets. But a variety of concepts & ideas can be borrowed and modified from the other planets in our solar ...

After a few weeks of talking about other things, I’m ready to tackle the next stage of the fighter in D&D, which of course means Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition, as well as the Complete Fighter’s Handbook, Player’s Option: ...

A look at how Injustice 2 uses RPG elements, and what that means for the future of tabletop.