Pacing Encounters and Sessions Together
This article is an excerpt from Your Best Game Ever, on preorder now and coming this summer! Pacing Encounters and Sessions …
Ensuring Player Agency
This article is an excerpt from Your Best Game Ever, on preorder now and coming this summer! Ensuring Player Agency Players …
A Light in the Darkness
Candles, specially-wrapped gifts, good tidings, and a mysterious man in a large red coat. We’re speaking, of course, of the …
A Deeper Look at Your Best Game Ever, Part 3: Character Arcs
In the previous installments, I’ve looked at a couple of areas that we’ll be discussing in Your Best Game Ever to give …
A Deeper Look at Your Best Game Ever, Part 3: Character Arcs
A Deeper Look at Your Best Game Ever, Part 2
So, last time, we took a look at a specific issue that Your Best Game Ever will cover and showed the general approach the …
A Deeper Look at Your Best Game Ever, Part 1
Every hobby has a go-to guidebook. Definitive and broad in scope, it’s the thing that every seasoned veteran has, and …
How to Make a Whole New Book Without Changing Anything
As we showed recently with the new Numenera books, Discovery and Destiny, you can mess around with the Cypher System …
A New Cypher System Rulebook
When we were finishing the new Numenera books, Discovery and Destiny, one of the first things that playtesters asked us …
Announcing Your Best Game Ever
Update: Your Best Game Ever is on Kickstarter now! We have some exciting news to share with you. Even as …
Player Intrusions
From the earliest days of Numenera, people asked, “Why are there GM intrusions and not player intrusions?” I felt, at …
The Core of Numenera Discovery and Destiny
Numenera is two books: Numenera Discovery and Numenera Destiny. Numenera Discovery is a revision of the original Numenera corebook. While it’s still the …
Starter Kit
I had the great honor of being asked to appear on Geek & Sundry’s Starter Kit show. My role? Run …