At the beginning of the year, my wife started learning Korean calligraphy. Then, a few months back, she found an art teacher to teach her w...

I've spent the better part of this week working on the robot rules for Bughunts & Bedlam.  Not special rules for running robots (I a...

 Ever notice how, when characters in a TV show or movie go to Mexico, it always just happens to be Dia de los Muertos? Everyone's dresse...

 Recently, on Facebook, Jeff Dee (yeah, that Jeff Dee) has been talking about "simulationist" RPG design.  Younger gamers might no...

 I finished editing my Missions & Mayhem core rules draft, as well as Cryptids & Conspiracy and Bughunts & Bedlam  modules bas...

 A few days ago, I came home from work to find my wife had spent most of the day watching YouTube videos about how to leverage AI into makin...

 Yesterday, I ran a relatively straightforward combat mission for Missions & Mayhem to play test some of the combat rules. And of course...

I think my base rules for Missions & Mayhem are done. At least, the heavy lifting is done. I've got rules that seem to work for all ...

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein (apocryphal)   I haven't made a lot of progress on ...

The current iteration of Missions & Mayhem has much simpler character generation than its parent game, d20 Modern. That was the big impe...

 Up until 3rd edition, every edition of Dungeons & Dragons has been a collection of mini-games. Combat is d20 rolls. Interaction (reacti...

 About an hour ago, Jeremy and I wrapped up a one-on-one play test of Missions & Mayhem.  He rolled up a Fast Hero, which has been a pop...

OSR Modern was a placeholder name, and I finally have a decent name for my simplification/revision of d20 Modern: Missions & Mayhem .  A...

 I have this piece of paper in my desk with three game design axioms written on it. I can't remember where I copied this from. Google se...

 After a frustrating at times past 24 hours, we have our table rosters set for the 2025 Busan Tabletop Game Con . Nine tables open, and arou...

In addition to Trunk-or-Treat last Sunday, and some Halloween events today (Saturday, Nov 1st, but it's Korea so...yeah), I've spent...