Crisis scenes have become a cornerstone of my gaming. Crises are multi-staged skill challenges with some twists and turns, and as much…

Erica and I talk about house rules a lot. We house-ruled BESM so much that we eventually just took all the house rules and made our own…

Erica and I are entering our fourth year of writing the RPGuide and after all this time, it’s a ton of advice and a lot to try to think…

I remember a time when my gaming group got together on the weekends, hunkered down in someone’s room, basement, shed — whatever space we…

Role-playing games aren’t just about mechanics and strategy. Board games are often better at that, and there are some truly amazing board…

Some role-playing games contain mechanics for removing control of characters from the hands of their players. Sometimes it’s psychic or…

We’ve written before about the concept of buy-in: Storytellers and players alike treating a character according to their concept. Respect…

If you use maps or tokens for your table-top role-playing games, then you need art for characters and monsters. Maybe you draw it yourself…

I hear that party wipes are a thing — that people are playing a role-playing game and their characters are on an adventure, and then all…

I’m not as experienced a Storyteller as Aron, and one of the most common mistakes that I make is not ensuring that my players and their…

In novels or other long-form fiction, there are all sorts of guidelines about how the story should unfold. One of the most well-known and…