28
May
Tuesday Magic Item – Flail of the Gardener
Gollaon and Voddick stepped back as the old knight unwrapped and then unfurled a flail. It look as though it was made o...
27
May
Designer Diary: High Tide | BoardGameGeek News
by Marceline Leiman
Oftentimes, the more personal a design is, the harder it is to turn it into a product.
In most cas...
27
May
Collect Seashells in Sanibel, Defeat Your Nemesis in Talisman, and Feel Betrayed in Derry | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
▪️ Avalon Hill announced a few new titles at a press event on May 21, 2025, one of which — Reiner Kn...
27
May
Run a Campaign Like a Fiction Author, part 4
Up to this point in this series (catch up on parts 1–3) I’ve laid out some philosophy about running a campaign more like...
27
May
RPG Evolution: If It Kills, We Can Build It
In traditional D&D dungeons, traps are everywhere. But what keeps them running? In the world of Dungeons & Drago...
27
May
Design Your Locks With More Keys
Education Every adventure's puzzle should have multiple solutions. In this article, we figu...
27
May
Can we use ADDIE to make a better rulebook?
Last week we looked at garbage time in board games, wondering if rulebooks should include explicit rules for conceding t...
27
May
A Quick Trick to Create Killer Ideas – Roleplaying Tips
This tip comes from Old Man Masha via the Roleplaying Tips Discord: Here’s a cool way to come up with interesting ...
27
May
REPOST: The Articles of Dragon: “Living in a Material World”
Issue #81 (January 1984) of Dragon included an article by Michael Dobson (whom I presume is the same Michael Dobson empl...
27
May
Ternary Ordered Dither – Benign Brown Beast
Suppose I have an image and I want to reduce the number of colors in it.1 How can I go about this? I’m including ImageMa...