There's a lot of setting in this world.
Five Tips for Running a Campaign in an Established Setting
How your borrowed campaign setting can stand out from its canon counterpart.
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Episode 83: Our Favorite Monsters
Special recurring guest host Jim is back, and this time it’s not even to talk about the law!
Episode 71: Character Customization
We’ve had deep and meaningful topics for long enough; it’s time to argue about roleplaying mechanics!
Episode 66: Show and Tell
Ariel, Chris, and Oren describe the difference between showing elaborate spectacle and simply telling what happens.
Five Convoluted Mechanics in Roleplaying Games
These RPGs required more reading than a college class to make sense.
Six Overpowered Weapons in Roleplaying Games
These combat tools put everything else in their system to shame.
Five Roleplaying Games That Don’t Do Their Setting Justice
These kitchen-table campaigns fall short of the stories that inspired them.
Episode 24: Magic Systems in Roleplaying
Oren, Mike, and Chris dissect spell mechanics across roleplaying systems.
Five Mechanics That Will Make Your Game Worse
These rules will get players scratching their heads—and maybe in open revolt.
Three Types of Roleplaying Mechanics
These deserve across-the-board focus for a good RPG.
Five Broken Abilities From The World Of Darkness
How this story-focused RPG series let these powers get out of hand.
Four Dice Pool Systems All Gamers Should Know
The pros and cons of these dice-filled RPG systems.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Dice Pool Systems
What a handful of d6's can do that one d20 can't—and vice versa.
Oren Ashkenazi