The RPG Tinkerage

Dragonbane from Free League is a branch of the RuneQuest/Basic Roleplaying mechanics, where the d20 and not the d100 is used to resolve ac...

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...

If you find yourself flicking through one RPG system, like Imperium Maledictum , and thinking to yourself that it could be played with XD20 ...

There's no doubt here that Basic Roleplaying is an excellent system that's surprisingly easy for beginners, adaptable, and can suppo...

The scenario is the bridge between the characters and the world. But how do your characters find themselves gathered at the Many Ways Inn? R...

 Those who meet at the Many Ways Inn are a curious group, driven by many strange paths to seek adventure, after their fashion. Every game, f...

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

Fighting Fantasy (the minimal gamebook rules ) could be enough of a framework for rule-light, freeform gaming, with a little judgement and t...

Under pandemic restrictions, the Tinkerage is confined to home and taking the opportunity to play Green Dragon style scenarios with two novi...

[Since the Blogger app caused an inadvertent repost of Narrative Adventures at the Green Dragon pub, the Green Dragon discussion continues ...

#Repost# A speculative sketch, loosely inspired by the (rumored?) free-form, improvised gaming of early designers and players.  What if ot...

The Tinkerage has been experimenting with solo roleplaying as a way to test some of the freeform, light and Play the World concepts with h...

All was well in the reign of Curefin the Good, but that reign is over. Martyn now sits on a contested throne, makes wars, grinds the poor,...

As outlined in the last post on playing the world with freeform, light rules, creating a character becomes a process of developing a descr...

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

The two or three souls who occasionally wander into the Tinkerage will recognize both the "Green Dragon" as an establishment and t...

As has been noted elsewhere, at some of its most dramatic moments, the professor's curious mix of tale-telling and game can involve com...