I'm going to explain my methodology for creating campaigns, and to do that, I'm going to start with Encounters. They are the basic ...

  Like Hollywood, many GMs are under the impression that the bigger the Threat to Existence, the more compelling the story will be. In my op...

  It is a rules light system. Incredibly rules light. So what? All rpg dice systems boil down into "What are you aces at?", "...

 Today's post will talk about two different types of playstyles and analysis using my thoroughly uneducated pop psychology. These are pe...

While waiting for a new game to start, I decided to make a party of four adventurers in my ICRPG setting WORLD OF ARYN and run through the o...

I'm trying to break my habit of prep, prep, prep, and never play. I'm looking for a more holistic approach. Imagine having a game wo...

Why do we roll for initiative they way we do? It's needlessly slow and dull, even requiring table gimmicks to keep track. But here's...

The well has run dry? If you've read my other posts then you'd know I have been there too. Here's a few things that helped me ou...

I'm not saying it can't be done. The premise of Shadowrun is sound, the world embraced technology because magic didn't exist. Ma...

This particular post holds an idea that can be added to any RPG. Character Background, sometimes there's pages and pages of it, and othe...

This blog is in response to Zee Bashew and Matt Coleville's youtube channels, regarding running a heist.  You want to run a heist, or ...

ICRPG uses a system called Effort, as in "this task requires more than the flip of the switch so let's see how far you get this rou...

So you feel ready to build your world but you don't know where to start. Suddenly the enormity of your task dawns on you and you panic! ...

 In recent months I have been gravitating toward more rules lite RPGs. Partially because of how hard it is to get new players to understand ...

I've played a variety of RPGs over my lifetime. Many of them have substituted Wound levels for Hit Points, such as Savage Worlds and WEG...