How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

Starting up a new one tonight. The system is Lamentations of the Flame Princess. The players are all women. One is completely new to rolepla...

So it's coming up on a year since I last ran a campaign, even a short one. And I'm pretty happy with that, honestly. Playing 2-3 ti...

"Over the next day or two." Yes. Right then. I've got a number of ideas about ways to deal with the language problem, most of...

So lately I've been jotting down notes for a new setting and discussing dice rollers for a Wave game with potential players and generall...

I am seriously tempted to make this the basis for my next campaign.

The rest of my group and I have different tastes. At some points, they overlap, and those are the games that we play. This leaves me with a ...

The other day, as I was writing up the list of campaigns I've played, it occurred to me that I've had a shift in my thinking about c...

My campaigns seem to have a tendency to undergo fairly significant changes in between first concept and final execution. Not all, certainly....

The Traveller game hasn't started yet, but it's coming along. I'm most of the way through my starting sub-sector, and I've s...

Planets I have made so far: D79A65-7 S NI Wa. Gola Tau. Run by the engineers who keep the environment bubbles working. They will challenge ...

Huh. So, I always thought of my first campaign as post-apocalyptic, in genre. Then noisms comes along with a new and exciting definition -...

With 4e, my long simmering idea to run a gladiator campaign has re-emerged. Not in anything approaching full force, mind you; the tropes of ...

As I was writing about the assumption of a long term campaign in 1st edition, it occurred to me (at least partly) why that is. The game is a...

The thing that really jumps out at me, as I read through the 1st Edition DMG, is the focus on long term play. 3rd Edition, the only one I...

I always get kind of jealous when I hear about people who have been running different campaigns using the same setting, often for decades. I...

I've been reading Jeff Rients' tales of PCs past and their rousing adventures, and something odd occurred to me: I've never ha...

Yes. This is what my next campaign needs to be. Metal. Steampunk. Vikings. Loud, horned hat dudes wandering around in a Conan-esque Lost W...

The PCs are all dinosaurs. You run around avoiding meteors and stomping things. This could be played totally straight where the players are ...

Crazy idea: a sandbox game with no regular group, in the style of the West Marches but with the setting that powers it shared between multi...

I still haven't gotten a handle on what I'm going to run this summer. I was going to do a sequel to last year's game, but that ...