The Retired Adventurer

Here's a simple and fast system for placing locations of interest in a single hex on a grid. I am assuming a four hour watch as the basi...

Blogs on Tape recorded my Six Cultures of Play article  for anyone who finds reading giant walls of text difficult. I've been featured...

I picked up my first roleplaying game book in 1991, when I was eight years old. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, w...

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...