Game Design

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...