The Vanishing Tower

BETTING ON THE RACE   What follows is a simple approach a GM can use to adjudicate betting results, and by extension, race results for any...

 I was playing around with AI recently and see if it could fulfill publishing roles for Vanishing Tower Press. Help me get better products o...

Running different games with different groups of players has allowed me to “self-populate” these same game worlds with ongoing, behind the s...

Well the whole damn thing worked out. Here is how. Go with the crazy. And be willing to convert on the fly without much agonizing whether yo...

 Kabuki Kaiser was most generous to provide me a copy of his latest adventure. I am really thrilled to offer my opinion once finished readin...

 These are your degree of difficulty, failure, and success array built into the first fantasy roleplaying game, and has been returned to aga...

 Time to finish up my Dungeon Crawl Classics conversion to Mongoose Traveller Stats. We are in the process of converting a Trillomite Guardi...

This simple hack allows me to use Dungeon Crawl Classics modules, Lamentations of the Flame Princess modules, and any D20 system really, at ...

Lightly sketched backstories are best. My current Classic Traveller campaign in MTU (my traveller universe) has PCs involved in counter-espi...

 The biggest take-away for me has been how bad 5e DnD is. For me, as a GM. I guess players love it. The character builds are more bloated an...

 The results are in, and are as expected!  Hi jay  murphy, Thank you for completing the Starfinder Design test. The hiring team has decided ...

I have pretty strong opinions on how one should run a ttrpg as, and in the role, of Game Master/Dungeon Master/Judge/Keeper, Starmaster, etc...

I have been hosting games on startplaying.games   for month now, and it has cemented my opinion on using VTT to run a TTRPG online. "Us...

I should have been on this years ago, but I was determined to write from the ground up my version of a human-centric sword and sorcery game...

  I mean, the Vanishing Tower house game has been going steady. We are live streaming the session. But it has been a year since I downloaded...

 Like many things in this hobby, you just need to get up and go at it! I'm "in-between" jobs right now so I decided I needed t...

I’m assuming this question asked ad-nauseum on game forums is mostly from players, as GMs will have been doing this for as long as they have...

My superhero game of choice is Mayfair's DC Heroes ttrpg, an out-of-print game from the Eighties, specifically the 3rd edition. The game...

 I'm hitting the road in a few days and it will involve some gaming projects. It is time off for me so I  will get a chance to isolate a...