Category: RPG Storytelling

  • Some Thoughts on (Scandinavian) Horror

    I’m running a game of Vaesen at Kublacon this month, so I’m thinking a lot about horror RPGs right now. And, while on a bit of medically-enforced R&R this past week, I finally got around to playing Bramble: The Mountain King, which I snagged a while back based on some random review, and it is…

  • Lobocon 2024 Field Report

    This past Saturday, Legends of the Wandering Crows was one of three RPGs demoed at Lobocon 2024. (Another one was Tarotweaver, a coming-soon game created by my colleague and friend Jared Mullicane. I didn’t get to play it, since I was running my own games; but I heard later on from playtesters that it was…

  • Failing Forward

    This past weekend, I took my prototype game, Legends of the Wandering Crows, to ConQuest Sac’s Protospiel to get some playtest feedback. I was lucky that I got a lot of feedback, and it was… constructive. The playtesters had a lot of positive things to say about the game, but they had more constructive things…