Recently I’ve discussed the importance of resource based risks to classic play, and perhaps offered a reason to use this play style, but I’v...

COMPLICATING THE RISK ECONOMY Slow building tension and risk is one of the goals of the Risk Economy, a way to encourage exploration by o...

TIME & THE RISK ECONOMY Only when I started running 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, and really digging into the rules did I realize ...

What’s Illusionism, and why should you care while running a game? Illusionism is a method of setting building or adventure design that r...

THE DUNGEON IS FIRST A QUESTION OF SPACE The first leg that the classic Dungeon Crawl stands on is “Exploration Play” - a description tha...

The blinding blackness of the underworld held back only by the sputtering light of your candles, lanterns and torches -- dim points in a vas...

Let’s talk about old tabletop roleplaying games - specifically the kind of games played in the 1980’s and recently depicted in the nostalgia...