Player Characters: No Omen. Harrow was youngest again. Decided to take the Return to the Stone Forest job, which involved finding a missing...| Widdershins Wanderings
I'm really a fan of all the many pleasures of the OSR play style, but one of my absolute favorite things to do in any tabletop game is something clever t...| Widdershins Wanderings
A tabletop roleplaying game blog focused on analyzing and applying the best ideas from the OSR and NSR communities.| Widdershins Wanderings
A blog post about how Religion in D&D and other Fantasy RPGs approaches polytheism in the wrong way and how to fix that in order to have more mystery and adventure in your game sessions.| Widdershins Wanderings
A blog post reviewing the OSR module The White Horse of Lowvale by Tania Herrero.| Widdershins Wanderings
A blog post about how to design a regional sandbox pointcrawl map that is player-facing.| Widdershins Wanderings
A tabletop roleplaying game blog focused on analyzing and applying the best ideas from the OSR and NSR communities.| Widdershins Wanderings
A blog post about how to handle death in OSR games, and some alternatives that are more dramatic than instantly killing a Player Character.| Widdershins Wanderings
Image taken from the Magic Tree House anime. Can you believe they didn't bring this thing over to the US? Missed opportunity.| Widdershins Wanderings
Hello, Gentle Reader! It's time to take up quill and ink and return to the task of creating Player-Facing Pointcrawls. If you have no idea what I am talk...| Widdershins Wanderings
A play report and general musings after running two game sessions of *The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford* using Cairn 2e for some middle schoolers at my school.| Widdershins Wanderings
The topic of today is Pointcrawls! Mostly because I'm running for some middle school students soon and I'm not satisfied with any of the solutions I hav...| Widdershins Wanderings
A blog post about how to think about and design obstacles when designing adventures for OSR systems.| Widdershins Wanderings