One of the things that attracted me to Mausritter was the obvious comedy of playing ultra-serious, politically complex, and thematically dark fantasy stories with mice, rats, and other adorable little critters. There’s an inherent level of camp in any TTRPG session that makes them all comedy-slash-the adventure’s intended genre. Even the most vile horror adventures…

This weekend I visited Montreal for the first time and spent most of it wandering around aimlessly looking at the sites. Overall I was very charmed. At times I was overwhelmed. I thought a lot about Electric Bastionland. Your Bastion will draw from the city you live nearest to. The first one that you explored…

I always thought I’d see a TPK coming from pretty far away. I thought there’d be time for me to think things through and understand what a party wipe will mean for the ongoing campaign. Will the players even want to keep going? Are they going to be invested enough in the world, the NPCs,…

I spent a few weeks this summer laboring over a hot MS Surface Pro drawing sci-fi themed, megadungeon chambers for what was supposed to be a very low-prep style of campaign. See, when I pitched the idea of a sci-fi campaign where the characters are stranded on an alien moon with no choice but to…