A Knight at the Opera: Demons at the Opera
A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: Kentaro Miura Note: ...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: Kentaro Miura Note: ...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Artist Credit: Kieran Yanner My blog output has been slow this year. Partially this is because I've started several very long posts that are...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
After my last face-meltingly long post compiling every variation on Skill Challenges (SC) out there, it's time to do a critical analysis of...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This was easily the funniest picture I found for "Edition Wars" People have short memories. Actually, that's only part of it. People also ne...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
We don't actually have the numbers of how popular Model UN (MUN) is but we can reasonably guess there's as many as 180,000 people who partic...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
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[NOTE: I originally wrote this review back in 2023 as a guest post for Bones of Contention , a critic collective comprised of many of the be...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Artist credit: Will Kirkby Most people would be utterly aghast at the notion of an RPG where you don't get to make your own character. To ma...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This post is part of the "Appendix N" blog bandwagon. I decided to share some of the many influences that have shaped a game I've been working on for a few years called Tricks & Treats.| A Knight at the Opera
[Context for this post: this is a re-write of an old post of mine I wrote back in 2021. I wasn't happy with my explanation, and it's filled with errors, but people link to it frequently anyway. Please update your links to this version, instead.]| A Knight at the Opera
A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: Mike Mignola Hey, ha...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Return to part 1 Continuing from part 2, I'm exploring some alternatives to the traditional role that money and economics plays in D&D, insp...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z| A Knight at the Opera
A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z| A Knight at the Opera
A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: Prem (aka Coool Brain)...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
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If you only ever listened to annoying AD&D fanboys, you might think that the OSR is strictly about crawling through big megadungeons as swor...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This is my tier list for "ways that board games end." Either the trigger for the ending or the way you evaluate the results or whatever. Anything having to do with the ending of a board game. Many of these are mutually compatible, obviously.| A Knight at the Opera
"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot." You have likely seen or been ...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss this game's approach to authority.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss this game's approach to consequences.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss the rules for combat.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss the rules for Companions.| A Knight at the Opera
We sometimes joke that blogging is a method of exorcism for the game design demons inside us. And right now, I'm possessed by the demon called Legion, for it is many. That's right, I speak once more of The Seven-Part Pact. I'm going to blog about this game until I've purged myself of Wizard Madness.| A Knight at the Opera
After collecting as many initiative methods into one post as I possibly could, I offered to write a review of them. A few people were inter...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Not really. But maybe, with your help, we actually can. Let's give this a shot. Every now and then I've seen a blog post attempting to cover...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This is a follow-up to that one previous post . I'm glad to see it's been received pretty positively, and that I've gotten lots of suggestio...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
I recently had the privilege to take part in an in-person playtest session of The Seven-Part Pact , the upcoming game by Jay Dragon. The Sev...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Credit: Alan Lee This is a post about a very subtle facet of spotlight management. I consider it to be one of the most important techniques ...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Artist Credit: Wayne Reynolds This is a spiritual sequel to a previous post about crunch . Everyone uses the word "balance" in reference to ...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here. Pertinent to this post, I've also released ...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here.| A Knight at the Opera
This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here.| A Knight at the Opera
D&D didn't forget about or abandon followers, flunkies, and lackies. They merely evolved. Adapted to selection pressures, now built for a di...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Pssst! If you're coming here from the Glatisant, Part 1 is here!| A Knight at the Opera
Does this guy have any actual solutions for us? Of course I do! I'm not just here to poop parties! But first, we must once again return to the ancient wisdom: the difference between game design and level design.| A Knight at the Opera
Ready for a major departure from everything I've been arguing in this series so far?| A Knight at the Opera
Credit: Mike Schley| A Knight at the Opera
Much has been made of the weird underlying assumptions of general "liberal American capitalism" woven throughout mainstream D&D economics g...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here. This post has required reading: Defeat, Not...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Because apparently this is a 5E blog now, I'm going to talk about the Gritty Realism variant rule suggested in the DMG on page 267. But wait...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here. When I pitch the game to someone who's used...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Here's a course-correction that I wish had happened a decade ago. It's an idea surrounding the OSR that I wouldn't call a misconception , ex...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This is a mistake I've seen many people make when discussing rules and content and stuff like that. Here it is: game design and level design...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
All the cool bloggers are into slushposting. I think it was started by Dan over at Throne of Salt ? He occasionally does this thing where he...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
If you work in any form of engineering then this is probably a familiar idea. I just want to talk about how valuable I find it to be when it...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This post collects a lot of miscellaneous observations and advice, some from other thinkers and some from myself. It's all basic-level. Ther...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
You've probably noticed me blogging a lot more about 5E lately. And if you've read any of that, you'll know I that I have pretty complicated...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Mazes and labyrinths are a staple of fantasy fiction, so it makes sense that you might want to see one in D&D. In many ways, the Greek Labyr...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
This is a review of Mothership , the popular and widely-acclaimed sci-fi horror RPG by Sean McCoy and the folks at Tuesday Knight Games . It...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
Artist credit: Katie Hicks Dolmenwood is now a big deal. But it was a journey to get here. It was originally conceived as a setting by Gavi...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
I have noticed an unspoken disparity in the way people seem to use hexes in the context of a hexcrawl, and I think it deserves some attentio...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
