TP's RPG blog

Years back our group found Fellowship , the best PbtA game we've played before or since. We played it a bunch  and had a lot of fun with...

Recently while browsing /r/RPGdesign  I stumbled on a post describing someone's monetary system in their work-in-progress RPG. It was ra...

Sometimes when you play a TTRPG someone introduces a seemingly small element into the plot that ends up changing the game and unintentionall...

A concept I don't see discussed often when it comes to RPGs is that of a "mental load". To put it simply, there is a limit to...

Awhile back I heard an interesting story in one of the Discords I frequent. One of the GMs ran a campaign of Stars Without Number Revised Ed...

My group and I  play a lot of RPGs. While some groups prefer to stick to traditional printed books and paper character sheets, we are pretty...

For some, the XP systems are the lifeblood of the campaign, the juicy reward you work for through your adventure. However, as with any syste...

While playing various RPGs , you sometimes see tropes and patterns emerge. We recently started playing Exalted vs the World of Darkness  (a ...