Maz said: “Grant, you should write more dev blogs. And not one every seven weeks when you remember; regular ones.” Well – seven weeks on, here’s a dev blog, because I remembered. CORRUPTION I finished Corruption last week. We aren’t doing XP in a normal fashion, because that would be too straightforward, and instead we […]
The DIE RPG is, obviously, great. It’s a heartbreaking journey into guilt, trauma and pride. It’s a therapy session disguised as a fun activity to do with your friends. It’s a roleplaying game about a comic about roleplaying games about love and the nature of being. Obviously. But what if it was really weird as […]
PAY ATTENTION. Can you feel it? A wretched knot of rust and ruin. A creeping cancer beneath the skin of the real. A wound in the world. A HOLLOW. The Isles – your home, the haggard heart of a lost empire – is beset by them. Sickness, murder, madness and poverty wash across the land in […]
We announced EAT THE REICH earlier this month to thunderous acclaim: but what is it? Details below: THE GAME EAT THE REICH is a pun that got way, way out of hand. I’ve been experimenting with the concept for about a year now after realising that “REICH” and “RICH” are very similar words and going […]
Chris and Grant switch on their microphones to record the design process behind their new one-page game TRASHKIN. If you want to get an insight into our method and don’t mind loads of useless distractions…
There’s no limit on what you can build guns into, and we should know, because we’re humans: and humans are the best at putting guns into things where guns shouldn’t be. To that end, here’s…
HEY SO our game, Honey Heist – an RPG in which you play a criminal bear with two stats, CRIMINAL and BEAR – is being played on Critical Role this week, which we are assured…
In this week’s episode: – RPG burnout – How to defend yourself from nightmare flying heads – Player pet hates (but not how to deal with them) – What went wrong with D20 Modern? –…
Welcome to the Hearty Dice Hearth: the start of a series where we gather round an imaginary internet fireplace and answer your questions in more detail, and perhaps in a more actually-useful way, than we…
We wanted to share some of the development we’ve done on the classes in Spire – our Kickstarter, which is nearly over – and how they reflect the system and the setting of the game.…
The 200 word RPG contest is a cracking yearly challenge, run by the selfless David Schirduan, in which – well – entrants must write an entire roleplaying game using 200 words or fewer. Seeing as I…
After the success of Honey Heist, it was always going to be a difficult act to follow, but I’m pretty happy with Big Gay Orcs – or A Thousand Orchid Blossoms, to use its alternative…
When you end up running games a lot, like I do, you can often end up in a rut – the same characters, the same scenarios, the same challenges, week after week. If you’ve been…
Hearty Dice Friends is a weekly podcast featuring two of the Rowan, Rook and Decard team – Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor. Each week, they (sort of) answer roleplaying questions sent in by the general…
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