The RPG Tinkerage

The 2008 edition of Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying (BRP), a solid book with a bright yellow cover and distinctive cover design, is often ...

Here’s a thing that can sometimes happen when someone is interested in starting out with play the world or FKR gaming: New Referee: I want t...

 A quick note on a recent find. Blade & Haversack on the msjx blog is a neat 2d6 iteration of the concepts of Sword & Backpack , bu...

Probably since the first player character was crushed by a troll in one strike, RPGs have acknowledged the need for a buffer between the pla...

Realism, in an RPG, is mostly a mirage. Even if the dice could do more than broadly approximate probabilities in the real-world, most player...

So for about a year, the Tinkerage has been playing various editions, mainly the 5th, of the game with the ampersand in the title. This has ...

 When you start a campaign, solo or with a group, the best advice is always to start small. Unless you're following a published sequence...