The Vanishing Tower

 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...

  The “Even Heroes Bleed” (EHB for those legions of fans) campaign has been revived, with the possibility of new heroes!  Continuing my roa...

 It happens ever so often, I throw out a willingness to run something specific for a one-shot and a few people respond and it gets off the g...

Surprisingly, to me, given the sheer amount of threads started by folks on this topic, I never see much reference to the source material of ...

  2022 is rapidly coming to a close and everything gaming is... good. I was real worried my DC Heroes/Blood of Heroes game was coming to an ...

The Even Heroes Bleed supers campaign continues to be a new, dynamic experience for me. Once again I turned over the Game Master reins to Me...

Most Superhero campaign cities are going to have their various gangs, organized crime families, and drug lords. And they all via for control...

 The new buzz word for running a ttrpg correctly is the “waterslide”. This is used in contrast to both railroad and the sandbox style of pla...

Recognizing Wargames as patient zero in what would become tabletop rpg’s and go on to infect the brains of millions of nerds breeding ground...