Game Design

The College of Haruspex  Equal part administrative service, funerary firm, library, and religious practice, the ministrants of the College of Haruspex worship the grim-faced Stocktaker of the Dead, who oversees the Cthonic Bureaucracy from his throne beneath the earth. The College is an unusual organisation, overseeing the gathering of information, the production and maintenance of birth and death certificates, and the proper rites of interring the dead, and the enforcement o

I’ve been making games for a little over five years now, and in that time my games have followed a fairly simple structure. This structure - which would eventually become the RHP System - is built around two players as they navigate a world that changes with the seasons. This formed the basis of Right Hand Path , Suburban Shaman , and the Gastronomancer , and would eventually be hacked into the multiplayer game We Stalk the Hedgerows .  The thing is, I’ve never been one for c

In today's blog, we dig into the donestre - a manipulative monstrosity found in medieval bestiaries.

We stand knee-deep in the spooky season, and “horror” is the word on everyone’s lips. GMs clamour to inject terror into their campaigns, and players long to be thoroughly terrified. The question, however, is how. Horror has been a staple of the TTRPG scene since its very inception, and of all the different flavours of horror that have influenced the hobby, the greatest and most terrifying is cosmic horror.  Horror is a tricky genre. Mechanically, it’s very similar to comedy:

Dragons are not born, you know.  Some claim that they, lizard-like, lay eggs atop volcanoes and or in the dark depths of the earth. This...

Welcome, one and all, to the Sealight Storehouse! Amidst these dusty shelves one might find any number of strange and wondrous items,...

I recently took part in an interesting conversation on Reddit about ableism in TTRPG design. Specifically, the thread was about how to...

I have a confession to make. As someone who cut his teeth on Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder, it’s a difficult confession. However, I...

The common signifiers of the fantasy genre are pretty consistent at this point. Dragons are pretty central, as are variably-sized...