Status: speculative proposal From another of Rick Stumps' posts that I enjoyed : Most of the light sources in the Mountain ended up bein...

I stumbled upon Rick Stump's blog recently.  There's a lot of good stuff here!  There was a line from this post that got me thinki...

How much backstory is too much backstory?  Especially in OSR games, where characters are likely to die at low levels? I had been kicking aro...

Grim Dawn does a couple of things in its dungeon that are sometimes annoying but fundamentally clever.  There are no randomly-generated map...

Executive summary: Write stories about things that have already happened in your world prior to the PCs' involvement.  Cut those stories...

 I was kicking around a setting pitch recently, something like The fire from the sky has ceased, and the earth has mostly stopped shaking.  ...

Arrow!  Black arrow!  I have saved you to the last.  You have never failed me and always I have recovered you.  I had you from my father an...