red-headed android

  • deathmatch island is a good game

    you know squid game? deathmatch island is squid game: the tabletop rpg and it’s sick as fuck. the first thing to know about deathmatch island is that it does one of my favourite things a tabletop game can do: it has mechanics only for…

  • let them pull the trigger

    this is part 2 of my RPG mechanics hall of fame. mechanics are good and important and these are my favourite ones. you know what players hate doing in RPGs? playing suboptimally. the rules can say that that monster just hit you with a…

  • my least favourite rpg

    no, not the worst rpg. how would you even measure that? this post isn’t about FATAL, or any of the other games you might’ve seen talked about as the ‘worst RPG’. no, this is far closer to my heart. this is about the rpg…

  • question rituals

    this is part 1 of my RPG mechanics hall of fame. mechanics are good and important and these are my favourite ones. so you’re playing Dungeons and Dragons or whatever and you come to this door in a dungeon and you ask if there…

  • vampire players

    no, not people who play Vampire. love you guys, but this one is about problem players. in balkan folklore–slovenian, if we’re talking about where i first heard it myself–there’s the story of the vampire Sava Savanovic. most people have heard of the Cool Vampires…

  • you have to make your nonbinary characters evil

    i mean that shit literally. but i also mean it in another way. here’s the breakdown. i, to whom gender is irrelevant, am pissed off that almost nobody knows how to write a nonbinary character that makes me feel anything. for some reason, almost…

  • toolbox theory

    there are two ways to play tabletop RPGs. one of them is objectively better than the other and i’m gonna tell you why. the first way is what i call ‘custom theory’, because it’s like when you open the customization menu in a video…

  • death to hit points

    i mean it. we gotta get rid of them. delendae sunt. not everyone knows the history of hit points. basically, old D&D was based on wargames that its creators played. in a wargame, if one of your soldiers gets hit by something, they probably…

  • my favourite game

    Masks: A New Generation is my favourite tabletop rpg ever and it’s not even close. i think more people should know about it, so here are the things i like about it. cool superpowers without complex rules if you’ve ever added your Caster Level…

  • sci-fi is the best genre

    and you know why? because it gives us a window into who we might be. you can tell a story about things that actually do happen in any genre of fiction. most so-called great literature is about things that could happen, or could have…