I. Dear Reader, I’ve been playing Legacy 2e, a post-apocalyptic game about factions trying to rebuild and survive. The most interesting thing about the game is that it has this ‘faction level’ play. You do play as a single character at times but you also “zoom out” and then play as the faction – conducting…

I. Dear Reader, If you haven’t heard yet, since Kickstarter rescheduled ZineQuest at the last minute, indie creators kicked off their own alternative – ZineMonth. There’s lots of games to browse that are raising money across a bunch of different platforms including itch or their own websites. It’s neat. I don’t have a list of…

I. Dear Reader, Quick example today of what we’ve been talking about these past few weeks and then I’ll take a break from the series and talk about other stuff, I promise. So basically, worldbuilding different societies is a process of linking societies together and giving them reasons to be different from their neighbours. My…

I. Dear Reader, As promised, this week I’m going to talk about putting radical societies in your game. Usual caveat, these are about my tastes – yours will differ and that is fine, none of us are bad people because of it. So that said, here’s another worldbuilding principle for you: “A society’s politics are…

I. Dear Reader, This week, we’re continuing our series on how to introduce societies with more alternative political systems into your games. I’m assuming here that this is something you already want to do so I’m not going to try and convince you of anything here. Because there’s a wide variety of reasons: from novelty…

I. Dear Reader, I’ve watched two separate Youtubers both make excellent videos on the subject of politics. But they both talk about roughly the same thing which is a bit strange to me. The first is Matt Colville and his series on politics (starting with this one but goes on for 5 more videos, I…

I. Dear Reader, I played a lot of fun games in 2021 – around 30 different games by my count. I feel like it’s almost mandatory for me to do some kind of “best of” so here are my highlights: CrashCart, Once More Into the Void, For the Queen, Girl by Moonlight and Band of…

I. Dear Reader, This newsletter is a day late because I allowed myself the weekend off. It’s been a busy Christmas week – one of those “I’m going to need a vacation at the end of this vacation” times. But things are settling down now and I’m excited for January. I’ve got lots of plans…

I. Dear Reader, After Finland, Australia and France, we’re hopping over to Italy. This list comes via my friend at RPG Internationale, a Youtube channel that does actual plays, reviews and interviews with indie RPG folks from around the world. Five Italian Games That Mattered To An Italian Immigrant And You Probably Should Try  Art…

I. Dear Reader We continue December’s trend of guest posts about games around this world. This week, Côme Martin has been kind enough to write for us about games from France! Five French TTRPGs You Might Not Have Heard Of France has long been a welcoming country to RPGs: D&D was quickly translated there as…