A Blasted, Cratered Land

My current weekly drop-in game of Mothership: Gradient Descent is now twelve sessions and thirteen characters deep. The extant four (or six,...

Mothership is a wonder of concise and evocative design, but I most appreciate its brevity when it leaves me holes to fill with homebrew. Her...

Here are six Styles for Xenophon's  By Spear Alone  wuxia ruleset. A short summation: characters have four stats (Might, Agility, Endura...

The spirit of the season has compelled me to join in that grandest of traditions: a Secret Santa, by way of the noble art of blogging . I dr...

Économiste A cloak-and-sword class. Any early modern French milieu needs its John Law , or its John Blunt , or perhaps an enterprising flo...

Hacking rules inspired by B/X thief skills. To hack, choose one of the following Hacker Skills and roll Xd6, where X is your cyberdeck’s Cl...

I’m reproducing the rules for Esprit here as I remember them because I lost my PDF of the original Cloak-and-Sword ruleset . It always felt ...

GLÅUGUST is upon us. I saw that one of the the prompts was "Full Life Consequences". So, really, this is Walfalcon's fault. F...

Recently, I’ve been thinking about tutorials. The post/OSR milieu places great emphasis on player skill, but has not been good at creating s...

 Esoteric Asset A useful inmate, designated Eτ. In order for Inhuman Resources to approve deployment of a Eτ Special Project, the Asset must...