Bright Cape Gamer

I have been doing a lot of writing on my RPG Heroes By Trade.  At the moment the text is still fairly rough but I have been slowly trying to...

Last time I talked about how I dislike the design of dangerous monsters in oldschool DnD.  The comments got interesting so I decided to talk...

Monsters in old versions of DnD were incredibly dangerous.  They would charm characters, turn them to stone, poison them, disease them, pop ...

Today I have been ruminating on character advancement.  My thoughts were directed this way by the latest DnD Next blog post which talked ab...

The DnD Next blog this week talked about some of the things that worked and didn't work in Next.  The designers of Next really like Adv...

It is good to consider every so often what sort of game you actually want to be playing.  Many times in the past I have been utterly absorbe...

Both of the campaigns testing Heroes By Trade have come to stopping points this week so I am taking some time to get feedback from players. ...