Random Diversions

The Mythic Game Master Emulator is a well-known system for running RPGs without a GM, or for providing extra plots twists and scene detail ...

Saving throws are one of those subsystems that provoke a lot of discussion, sometimes heated discussion. One of the hot-button features of s...

If you've read my blog or any of my G+ postings, you probably know I publish a line of virtual tabletop geomorphs called Dungeons in Blu...

A few days back I posted an ultra-simple example of a random table in Excel. Since I'm making a few tables for another project, I thoug...

Someone over on G+ was asking about tools to make random tables for RPGs. I mentioned Excel and the poster said they weren't very good a...

Apparently I ask this question too much. I was cleaning up an old mailbox from my Moria game and came across one of the email post-sessio...

I've been toying around with stat blocks in Tiddlywiki , trying to come up with a better way to lay them out without creating too many t...

I generally wax positive about Tiddlywiki as a GM tool for campaign notes, but the session I just ran uncovered out a couple flaws with us...

I'm a fan of Tiddlywiki for GM notes, something I've mentioned of before. I'm currently doing some work for my next Daruna game,...

I use TiddlyWiki for pretty much all my campaign notes these days. The combination of hyper-linking and a single self-contained file (minus ...

Wow. This place is dusty. Guess I need to break out the vacuum. I'm finally doing some work on my Daruna campaign again. We're sch...

I was browsing my youtube favorites the other day and found a perfect example to illustrate why I end up writing so much material when I sta...

So if you're somewhere in a large portion of the United States, you're probably seeing the same thing outside your window that I...