Trying to Identify the Building Blocks of Genres for TTRPGs TTRPGs need genres. I want to do something about that, somehow. What I am not going to do is propose shiny new genre labels for TTRPGs and argue about their applicability. TTRPGs finding secure genre labels will need to involve waves and waves of agreement, and I’m not up to arguing, but I do think I have a good starting point. As a perhaps not wholly necessary preamble, see the earlier blog post dealing with why I

In Want of Proper Caterogies for Table-top Role-playing Games Walk around a bookstore and you’ll see novels separated into different genre categories like Romance, Science-Fiction, Mystery, and so on. TTRPGs are not categorised so conveniently, and I wish they were, for several reasons. Perhaps the biggest one is that I think it would help the buying process. Genre categories would give consumers  a better idea of what they are buying. Distributors would more effectively be a

Rumination on Time Spend vs. Success in Indie TTRPGs I’ve written so many failed blogs over the last year, thousands of words that, like...

5 Examples of a TTRPG Design Approach You Can Use A while ago I wrote a blog post about how in TTRPGs, dice aren’t what you think . If...

A middling dive into my favourite fiction and its most recent TTRPG adaptation My old joke is that I design games not for GMs at their...

A middling dive into Tuesday Knight Games' Mothership and why I don't jive with it After backing the Mothership Kickstarter from Tuesday...

A new game from Radio James Games coming in 2024 I’m shy to talk about myself, so I’m not great at promoting my things, but, I am excited...

A new game from Radio James Games coming in 2024 There’s always half a dozen major TTRPG projects in various stages of development all...

A new game from Radio James Games coming in 2024 It’s maybe a little strange to talk about the 2024 plans for Radio James Games now that...

How One Player TTRPGs Show the True Future of the Hobby, and My Past Before anything else, let's get out of the way that my new one...

An anecdotal review of the TTTPPG game-line and a dive into the Lens of Play design concept Dune has a Superman Problem. The “Superman...

Exploring Publishing Plans, and How Much Life Should One Game Have? It's time to start kicking up a fuss, I suppose. This isn't a...

Understanding the Baseline in indie TTRPG Publishing In an effort to arm those new to TTRPG publishing, I wanted to write down the...

A crabby blog complaining about ttrpg design, at least this time I am supportive of the indie ttrpg industry—I make my home in this...

Breaking down one of the worst trends to ttrpg design philosophy There is a problem with individualist philosophy in ttrpg design and...

Dirty dice design secrets revealed! Roleplaying’s most commonly held mechanical underpinning is due for deconstruction What are dice?...

How Moonlight on Roseville Beach schools the indie ttrpg industry I work in magazines, and I've always been adamant that table-top...

An analysis of Here We Used to Fly and where it belongs in games I backed the Kickstarter for Here We Used to Fly, a ttrpg by fellow...

A table-top role-playing game development blog There’s a secret in table-top role-playing games. Hidden inside every ttrpg is another,...

A table-top role-playing game development blog For fun, let's go through the development timeline of an indie ttrpg as I try to puzzle...