Essays, actual play, theory talk, and general navel-gazing about story-focused roleplaying, aka “indie” games. And trindie. And OSR. If you’re small and scrappy, I want to talk about what you’re doing! If you’re fighting to grow, I want to talk about what you’re doing! Basically if it’s roleplaying (tabletop, freeform, larp, whatevs) and it’s not the monolith of D&D, it’s in my wheelhouse.
I have a theory: there are two kinds of licensed games. Or, perhaps, licensed games fall on a continuum. The first kind is where the rules provide as little friction as possible while you Do License Things. The game expects you to bring lots of knowledge of the license to bear, and the system does… Continue reading Deep Dive: Cowboy Bebop
This is part 6 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted part 5 last week, and if you want to start from the beginning here's part 1. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, here’s the deep dive on Stonetop I posted a few weeks ago. Enjoy! This session's theme: I’ll take imperfect, messy, emergent play… Continue reading Stonetop AP Episode 6: Into the Steplands
This is part 5 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted the love letters that set up this session last week. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, here’s the deep dive on Stonetop I posted a few weeks ago. Enjoy! It’s been a month since we played but we finally got… Continue reading Stonetop AP Episode 5: Summertime
This is the pre-session prep for part 5 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted part 4 last week. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, here’s the deep dive on Stonetop I posted a few weeks ago. Enjoy! We’d been off a month since episode 4, so I created some love… Continue reading Stonetop AP Pre-Session Prep: Love Letters
This is part 4 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted part 3 last week. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, here’s the deep dive on Stonetop I posted a few weeks ago. Enjoy! This was our last Stonetop thread until mid-October 2023. Lots of scheduling hiccups came up! But we… Continue reading Stonetop AP Episode 4: Back Home
