TP's RPG blog

Recently I've been watching some RPG Blender  actual play of Exalted 3E  and I've noticed something about a few episodes or scenes -...

A lot of players love getting attached to random NPCs, all of your Boblin the Goblins. Some games encourage that friend recruiting loop. How...

Burglars want to burgle My group and I have been playing some Fellowship recently. One of our characters was the Heir, a noble face of the...

Recently in our Star Wars Fellowship game we had a session filled with some roleplay encounters. We talked with a clone trooper conspiracy ...

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

My group and I  play a lot of games with interesting mechanics. Lately, we've been trying Cortex , a modular RPG system where you can ta...

For a few years my group had some fun playing a few games  of  Godbound , a demigod OSR RPG. It was a game letting you play level 20 D&...

Technology and the industrial revolution have been an unprecedented boon to the global standard of living. With them, we escaped the Malthus...

Many RPGs let you play character types that can only be described by our modern sensibilities as "criminal" or "outcast"...

Over the last few years my group and I  have played a number of systems that had mechanics you could game to get XP or other advantages, or ...