Guidelines for introducing custom rules or items without breaking the table There comes a point in every game master’s life when the rules… just aren’t enough. Maybe you want to create a new spell that lets your bard charm someone by tap dancing. Maybe your warlock wants a sentient umbrella […]
Author: Phoebe Atlis
Black Powder & Brimstone: Demons, Gunfights, and Doom in the Wilds of the Weird
Inside the gritty, gunsmoke-drenched TTRPG from Free League Publishing If you like your roleplaying games with a little sulfur, a little lead, and a whole lot of trouble—let us introduce you to Black Powder and Brimstone, the infernal-fueled, bullet-bitten frontier of Free League Publishing’s grimdark fantasy offerings. This is a […]
Why Every Party Needs a Cowardly Character
How fear-based characters add humor, drama, and surprise heroism to your next campaign Bravery is overrated. Sure, it’s cool when the paladin charges the dragon or the barbarian holds the bridge with 2 HP and a broken axe. But you know what your campaign really needs? A coward. The one […]
Bricks & Sagas: Building an Ongoing LEGO Campaign (One Battle at a Time)
How to turn your LEGO builds into an epic, evolving tabletop narrative with characters, factions, and story arcs You’ve built the battlefield.You’ve raised the fortress, armed the orcs, posed the paladin mid-strike.The battle looks amazing—and maybe you’ve even started playing games with your builds. But now you want more. You […]
Bricks of War: Building Epic Battle Sets with LEGO
How to bring combat scenes, campaigns, and conflicts to life—one stud at a time There’s a special magic that happens when you combine structured creativity with imaginative chaos. And in few places is that magic more apparent than in the world of LEGO battle sets. Not the official sets, necessarily […]
Pirate Borg: Doom, Treasure, and the End of the World at Sea
The only RPG where your scurvy crew may die horribly—and you’ll love every second of it You don’t play Pirate Borg to be a hero. You play Pirate Borg to chase cursed treasure through a haunted archipelago, scream “Betrayal!” as your first mate steals the ship, and go down in […]
TTRPG Spells Inspired by Classic Board Game Mechanics
How to bring the cunning of Clue, the strategy of Risk, and the chaos of Monopoly into your magic system Not all spells need to be about fireballs and healing words. In fact, some of the most fun, flavorful, and memorable spells in a tabletop RPG aren’t borrowed from real-world […]
Mr. Faust’s Footnotes: A Necessary Newsletter from a Fox with Filing Privileges
A formally informal invitation to explore the magical margins of the world of Fable In a world where sentient staircases argue with their architects, pastry betrayals are a weekly occurrence, and the constellations have an opinion about your haircut, one fox has taken it upon himself to document the absurd, […]
Build Cultures in Seconds: Dr. Sable’s Fantasy Culture Generator Toolkit
Worldbuilding just got faster, deeper, and dangerously addictive You sit down to prep your next session or start a fresh fantasy story. You’ve got a region mapped, a few names jotted down, maybe a vague sense of politics and terrain. But then comes the hardest part of worldbuilding: Creating a […]
MÖRK BORG: The Doom Metal TTRPG You Were Warned About
Apocalypse, rot, and rule-breaking brilliance—all bound in a glowing yellow grimoire. There are TTRPGs you play for character growth.There are TTRPGs you play for tactical strategy.And then there’s MÖRK BORG—the game you play to see how gloriously, how spectacularly, how thunderously it all ends. Published by Free League Publishing and […]