TP's RPG blog

Recently I ran a political intrigue / investigation adventure called The Storms of Yizhao  for a few groups. It has a few neat approaches to...

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

My group and I  have played a good amount of PbtA games  (Fellowship, Legacy, Dungeon World, etc.). After getting used to them we did a one ...

In a lot of RPGs, players have skills, stats or whatever you want to call them that are well defined. Things like Medicine, Nature, Insight,...

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 ...

Recently, my group and I  ran a one-shot of the iHunt RPG . It's a game about being a monster hunter in the gig economy. You're perp...

Over the years, my group has learned that it's important to nail one thing down before a game starts - its vision, an agreed vision of ...

Efficiency in a tabletop system is a nice thing to have. The more systems I try with my group , the more I'm bothered by rolls that don...

In the past we have discussed a few topics related to what I'd like to bring up today - how Chronicles of Darkness improved the game exp...

My group and I have played Godbound for a long while now. One thing we noticed while playing this game is that while this game features a ...

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

My group  tends to experiment with different systems and techniques. One day we decided to try playing some Chronicles of Darkness , and our...

A primer on economics in space mercantilism. Introduction This post discusses a few ideas on how to apply real-world economics t...