Hey, have you heard of Ted Lasso? I bet you have. I bet you have friends who love Ted Lasso. And I bet they insist that you have to watch it because you’ll love it. I have friends like that. They were so...
In September 2023, Twitter user @LouisatheLast tweeted “Babysitting a 4 year old has me convinced that what video games need is “little buddy mode,” where a kid can have a character that just jogs along with you and can...
When I watched Saturday Night Live in the early 90s, Mike Myers starred in a recurring sketch called Coffee Talk. In this TV talk show parody, Myers played host Linda Richman, an impersonation of his mother-in-law, amplifying her more...
One of the classic villains of the TTRPG experience came up on a couple of podcasts I listened to this week: Doors. Doors terrify players. Closed doors especially. Whose door is this? Why is it closed? What can happen...
Whether you’re a game master, a player, or a designer, at some point you needed to learn the ins and outs of a new system. Recently, I wrote about learning games by writing adventures. That helped me with my...
At the recommendation of Cathy, Alex, and non-network friends, I picked up Marvel Snap. I liked it. And, as with most things, I started thinking about what I could take from it and apply to GMing TTRPGs. What Is...
The players in my longest running group never had a problem expressing their characters’ every thought, often at the expense of the immersion of the moment. I hated it. Vin Diesel to the rescue! In his introduction to 30 Years of...
It’s funny, ever since moving from D&D 3.5 to Pathfinder instead of D&D 4e, I’ve felt less connected to the Dungeons & Dragons brand. Whereas once I would have worn a t-shirt with a draconic ampersand, I no longer...
This episode of Behind The Screens is called “Bluey Rules”. And yes, I’ll get to the RPG advice for Game Masters eventually. But first! For those unfortunate enough to be uninformed, Bluey is an Australian animated series about an...
Famously*, I homebrew the majority of my adventures, but I don’t write them down. Ideas revolve around my brain like so many aeon stones, and I draw from them as need. This works smoothly in person, as I feed off the...