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If you were intrigued by my earlier insight into designing fictional languages, I have a couple more computer options for your consideration to help track your own creations. I briefly considered the database options at Lexiconga. This website (which works on my Mac desktop and my iPad) offers a simple...

Read me first! If you somehow missed the first three installments of Jean's great advice on making props, you can catch up here, here, and also here!  Creating a good prop isn't just about displaying information; removing information can be important, too. You can, of course, tear off part of...

Our ongoing work with bringing the Fighting Fantasy books to the United States continues apace. Even as we make plans into the future, it's still fun to look into the past. Case in point: a recent Facebook post from Museum of Games Ireland showing the cover page of a Fighting Fantasy...

While in the midst of a game design discussion on Discord, I was thinking about the difference between TTRPGs and LARPs. When I was younger, I used to do a lot with silence and speech in LARPing. One of my proudest games from my teenage years was called "Silence Blooming"...

My cheapest hobby is collecting random interesting words that I find when digging into the etymology of modern vocabulary, sometimes fiddling with them to make them look part of a cohesive yet fictional language for that fantasy RPG campaign kicking around my head or that Star Trek fan fiction I...

Life is idyllic on this British isle . . . but what is the cost? The answers are yours to form and discover, in Harvest. Written by Luke Jordan, this GMless folk-horror RPG has the players take on the role of the members of the community. Each has their insight...

Here's a quick tip for tabletop roleplaying gamers. A lot of times, GMs will think of a nifty prop idea after coming up with a character concept: "Oh, it'd be awesome if this guy had a black briefcase," for example. But then it can be a pain to track down...

BGG.SPRING, an annual event in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, will be held this year over Memorial Day weekend from May 22-26 at the Hyatt Regency DFW Airport. The spring verson of the long-running BGG.CON convention is geared toward families, with no minimum age requirement. There will be dedicated rooms for different...