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Following my article on running sandbox adventures, I share practical tips for running city-based campaigns. Often considered the hardest challenge for GMs, I share my prep process to make running... Read more...

Cursed Scroll 6, the Best Yet?

I give my impression of Shadowdark's Cursed Scroll #6, and walk through how I would prep "The City of Masks" to run as a sandbox. Read more...

How Did Gary Think People Would Play D&D?

I take a deep look at the article that inspired the Gygax '75 Challenge to understand how D&D's original creator viewed campaign design and world building. Read more...

How to Run a Sandbox Adventure

Many GMs find running sandbox-style games hard relative to the trad style of a plot-driven adventure or campaign. Which is really unfortunate because sandboxes should, in fact, be easier to... Read more...

In Defense of Humor in Adventure Modules

Why adventures don't need to be serious in order to be taken seriously. Read more...

The All New Revivify Games

An apology for my silence as I launched this new site and a sneak peek at my Zine Quest project for this coming year "The League of Dark Few." Read more...

Running “Lovely Jade Necropolis” in DCC.

A Dungeon Crawl Classics conversion guide for Joseph R. Lewis’s latest adventure. Read more...

51 Uses For the Immovable Rod.

Is the immovable rod the perfect tool to teach players how to do OSR-style puzzle solving? I think so. Plus a list of 51 uses for it that I rattled... Read more...