The RPG Tinkerage

 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...

The Many Ways Inn is famous for standing at the meeting of three great roads on the chaotic margins of the Harrowmarch, and infamous for the...

The OSR movement (the Old School Rules/Revival/Renaissance, etc.) has, over the years, brought to light a lot of interesting rules and ideas...

Searching the for insights into the 'free-form" role-playing procedures of some of the earliest GMs and designers, the Tinkerage ca...

Two low-cost games show the potential, and limits, of rules-lite and free-form RPGs. Tiny Dungeons Tiny Dungeon , by Brandon McFadden, S...

This post picks up on the system for Roll and Read solo play , with a different die and extended for group RPG play. It's also based on ...

Not too long ago, the Tinkerage mentioned the ultra-light  Sword & Backpack system. The rules of Sword & Backpack are minimal: roll...

A system for Tony Dowler's perfectly compressed micro-dungeon maps ? Try the ultra-concise Deeds & Doers . Only players roll – ...