When all you have is a hammer: item-based problem-solving in OSR D&D
When players in a D&D game are confronted with a problem or an obstacle, the first thing they often do is look over their character sheets t...
Infernal Contracts for TTRPGs
I Made a D&D One-Shot System & Won't Play Without It
Bathtub Review: Mana Meltdown
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…
Ex-RPGNet Review: The Mortality of Green
An excellent overland adventure, organized to make the GM’s task simple and the player’s experience memorable.Original Review Posted May 21st, 2001Before WotC’s OGL and D20 trademark l
Monstrous Mondays: The Five Spirits of the Grimorium Verum
The Other Side Blog is a game design blog from Timothy S. Brannan
White Box: Cyclopedia Review
My OSR Blog about fantasy world building and rules analysis for D&D.
Also home of the B/X inspired 5e-clone "Into the Unknown."
When player agency meets character compulsions
When you're playing a role, sometimes your character ought to act in some way. The goodly hero has a moral code regarding the treatment of...
Review: Outlaws of the Iron Route — Prismatic Wasteland
Reviewing one of the earliest adventures for 5th Edition D&D: how I would improve player agency and how my proposed fixes grind up against the play culture of 5e.
Witchlance
The witches of Krakow live in their beasts. A direct successor to the witch hut, their hollowed out chests and stretched pelts serve as a ...
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