Episode 166: Jim Pinto Talks Player Agency  and the DM/Player Compact Our guest for episode 166 is the prolific game designer ...

Source: Stuart Robertson In the early days of role playing games, there was a lot of push back against class based games like Dungeons ...

As I mentioned in a background post recently , I will be doing a series of posts looking at roleplaying games  to analyze how they balance s...

Over the course of the next few weeks, I will be discussing how some games balance their desire to simulate a certain activity with the n...

Every game master is a game designer at heart.  Every game session GMs make little decisions regarding player actions that seem to lay j...

Gary Gygax's list of recommended reading, is "appendix," on page 224 of the first Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Mast...

Earlier today, I made the second of what I hope will become a regular monthly or bi-monthly visit down to Victory Point Games headquarters i...

I am a sucker for dungeon crawl themed board and card games. I own the vast majority of the games included in Board Game Geek's Definit...

Last week, Cinerati featured the first in a series of responses to the book Things We Think About Games . In the post, I discussed how the...

In 2008, game designers Will Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball released a very useful book entitled Things we Think About Games . The book contain...

It is a maxim that every Game Master is a game designer to one degree or another. It is also a maxim that every Game Master believes that h...