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I know they're kind of old-fashioned nowadays, but if you need a piece of cool evidence in your game (especially a campaign featuring GURPS Mysteries), nothing quite beats a check. A single (fake, of course!) check provides lots of clues that players can follow up on: addresses, names to and from...

My parents were always fond of telling me that video games were a waste of time. While they might have been right on some level – I've dedicated an embarrassing number of hours to Baldur's Gate 3 – I don't think they can really make that argument for Foldit. The object...

Imagine: A world of eldritch terrors. A world of bizarre mysteries. A world of extraterrestrial beings.    This is the world of Cthulhu!   Based on classic tales of cosmic horror, Choose Cthulhu is a series of stand-alone game books that take you on a solo journey through the Miskatonic Valley....

I've been experiencing the joy of roguelike games on my Nintendo Switch, which deliver a bite-sized batch of fun on the portable console. For those who aren't familiar, roguelikes are – very briefly – dungeon-crawl-type games with more or less randomly generated environments. One element in some of the genre...

I haven't had a chance to play Star Wars Outlaws yet, but I have been amused by early reports of the in-game pet Nix, who has a "pet" command and can be made jealous if you give attention to other animals. I was especially delighted by online reports about what...

I just realized how straightforward it would be to recreate classic "instant camera"-type pictures as props for a game. Here's some info on Polaroid photo dimensions to get the right sizes (or use the details as inspiration for your game universe's equivalent). To craft something durable like the originals, I'd...

I don't think I've shared this story . . . or, at the very least, I haven't shared it here – and it's continued to delight our family for about a decade now, so why not inflict it on you? We had purchased the Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of Ashardalon...

Despite playing RPGs since 1976 and writing for the industry since 1980, I've never managed to get family members to go on a tabletop adventure. That changed in mid-July, when a trip to a WiFi-less vacation cabin provided an opportunity to run a game for my sister, my brother-in-law, and...