The Retired Adventurer

I am planning to respond to the comments on the "Six Cultures" essay, but it's been a busy few months. I work for an organiza...

In this post I am going to present the taxonomy of the six main play cultures as well as a few notes about their historical origins. I am do...

I picked up Downcrawl and Skycrawl , both by Aaron A. Reed. My overall evaluation of both is quite positive, tho' I expected not to lik...

I've been keeping myself busy in quarantine during 2021 by reading academic papers. Here's a few papers about games that I've fo...

I was talking with Jojiro of Dungeon Antology yesterday about designing dungeons for 5e, and while doing that I used the terms "diges...

Five years ago, I wrote the original Trapplications post. After years of updating it based on use, it's time to present the more stream...

My offline 3.5 campaign shifted online in April and then came to an end in late August with a TPK and will be rebooting as a 5e game sometim...