A Gnome's Ponderings

Sign is supposed to be a LARP but it reads more like one third social experiment and one third history lesson and one third group therapy. I...

Looking at Time Lord twenty years later, I find myself thinking that simpler RPG mechanics have both become more common and more accepted.  ...

I just stumbled down a rabbit hole and a blast from the past when I rediscovered the role playing game Time Lord. It was the second role pla...

Really, as long as you count toward horror, there are more games suitable for playing in Halloween than any other. Seriously, the idea of tr...

I recently reread Ocean, partly to get myself back into reading RPGs for fun. I first read it when I was just starting to explore indie game...

I was recently told something to the effect that players will appreciate good mechanics but they will fall in love with a setting. My ow...

Tak belongs to that curious family of games that were fictional and someone decided to make real. The game was mentioned in Patrick Rothfuss...