The Retired Adventurer

Cover in Openquest is your main defense against ranged attacks, since you can't dodge them (unless they're thrown weapons). I think ...

Into the Odd is a rules-light OSR adventure game put out by Chris McDowell of Sooga Games . The most notable parts are the surreal 19th cen...

In the past  when running Necrocarcerus, I've used some variation of Skills: The Middle Road . As I've mentioned before, I dislike s...

I'm going to lay out a simple technical plot  as an example. This one will be science fiction. Preventing a Supernova For our first ...

The technical plot is the type of plot where the resolution of the problem relies on the characters' technical knowledge of futuristic s...

Back in early 2012, when I was gearing up for an Openquest campaign set in the Dawnlands, I came up with a bunch of house rules for Openques...

I played a one-shot of the One Ring this weekend at LozCon. This is more notes from that experience than a review of the book: 1) The One ...