In the last post All Dead Generations looked at the general design principles in Wizard’s of the Coast’s new campaign tome Baldur’s Gate: De...

Cover of Descent Into Avernus With the basic ideas behind dungeon crawl style play covered, I'll be taking a look at the current st...

The last of the set of basic design principles for classic Dungeon Crawls are those around the animate opposition, the active threats to th...

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...