# tabletop roleplaying (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tabletop roleplaying. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Shift in Focus](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/a-shift-in-focus/) _2026-08-03 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ Over the weekend, I received a copy of the new Cypher Character Rulebook as a backer reward. I’d already received the book in PDF a while back and given it a once-over, but with the hardcover in hand, I decided to give it a more thorough examination. ## [Getting Back on Track](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/getting-back-on-track/) _2026-07-06 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ The last couple of months have been simultaneously crazy busy yet also strangely devoid of news or thoughts worth sharing. Which isn’t really surprising, when you think about it, because if you don’t have time to read cool stuff, play cool stuff, think about cool stuff, ## [The Elements of (Gamemastering) Style](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/the-elements-of-gamemastering-style/) _2026-04-13 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ As you read this, pretend you’re watching a video of me walking and talking in a scenic outdoor location somewhere. Maybe a forest preserve . It’s not that I couldn’t make a video like that, but I’ve done enough video and audio production ## [Remonstered!](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/remonstered/) _2026-04-06 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ We’re at T minus 6 months (yes, I’m watching the NASA Artemis feed right now), and it’s my pleasure to share with you the cover of my upcoming book, which—after some last-minute wrangling with the Gallery Books publishing office—will ## [I went to GaryCon 2026](https://www.weirdwonder.net/garycon2026/) _2026-03-28 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked creatively. Playing games with old friends, some I had never had the opportunity to meet in person, really helped me adjust my perspective and reground myself in what I love: GAMES. I played: An Unnamed Horror Game by Direct Sun, Palace of the… ## [Unfulfilled by the Guild](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/unfulfilled-by-the-guild/) _2026-02-03 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ The Dungeon Masters’ Guild turned 10 years old this past month, and Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin presented a retrospective in a couple of videos they released in December ( 1 , 2 ). There’s really no denying at this point that the DMs’ Guild is in ## [Loot Bash](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/loot-bash/) _2026-01-26 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ Hello again, readers. I hope you all had a happy and restful holiday season and are holding up under whatever fresh hell this new year has already been. I’ve been quiet these last couple of months partly because most of my time has been taken up by a ## [Year Over Year - Endies 2025](https://www.weirdwonder.net/year-over-year/) _2025-12-31 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ I feel funny writing a wrap up/looking forward post but I'm doing it. First: thank you everyone for your support this year and for playing/reading my adventures. Here's how the year went and how it's looking moving forward in 2026. In 2025 I got very busy at my day job and it tanked my energy creatively for a while. I didn't really blog much and had a hard time writing and gming while I rebalanced… ## [Hexmas 0202: Conifer Mountain](https://www.weirdwonder.net/hexmas-0202-conifer-mountain/) _2025-12-26 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ Spruce and pine line trails ne'er traveled Beneath the boughs, wolves stalk o'er gravel The Beorling growls and guards the brains Of humble travelers where Bumble reigns Used without permission, copyright of Rankin Bass. PART OF MERRY HEXMAS - ADJACENT HEXES North: Poison Swamp Northeast: Castle Claus Southeast: Three Calves South: House of the Kringles Southwest: Polar Pines Northwest: Miserable… ## [PAX Unplugged 2025 Recap](https://www.weirdwonder.net/pax-unplugged-2025-new/) _2025-11-28 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ This past weekend I attended PAX Unplugged for the third time, a con that I highly recommend as it is a very fun mix of board games and roleplaying games. My General Strategy for 2025 PAX Unplugged My goal this year was to spend time playing with my fellow designers who have been long standing internet acquaintances or friends. So many people had decided to attend this year who the chances of… ## [Open-source Screen Sharing with Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MjC5ZkLTPdbt) _2025-11-28 · **Sponsored**_ WebRTC screen sharing with simultaneous mouse & keyboard control; viewers join in browser. ## [When One of Us Is Attacked, We All Roll Initiative](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/when-one-of-us-is-attacked-we-all-roll-initiative/) _2025-11-11 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ Sending out a quick note to let you know about an upcoming charity stream: This coming Saturday, Nov. 15, I’m hosting a Dungeons & Dragons game featuring Brian Gray ( Rivals of Waterdeep ), Jen Kretchmer ( Players and Book , Children of Éarte , Heroes of the Planes ), Lexi McQueen ( Sacred ## [A yawn from the void](https://www.weirdwonder.net/a-yawn-from/) _2025-11-09 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ Today is a grab bag. I am finishing up my next adventure and preparing to run a minimum viable version of it at PAX Unplugged. I am tempted to make my own Fishtown for my upcoming Break!! campaign, and I owe you all a debrief on my recently concluded Mythic Bastionland campaign. I also am co-running an experimental megadungeon using Worlds Without Number with my pal. This is none of those things.… ## [We’re All Mad Here](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/were-all-mad-here/) _2025-10-20 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ You may find it hard to believe, but there’s no convention dedicated to tabletop roleplaying gaming, or even tabletop gaming in general, in Chicago. There’s C2E2 , but as you can guess from its full name—the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo—it treats TTRPGs ## [Orestruck Release Day](https://www.weirdwonder.net/orestruck-release-day/) _2025-09-17 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ Today is the release date for Orestruck, my next adventure in the Tannic Forest. ORESTRUCK INVITES YOU TO RETURN TO THE FOREST Orestruck is an adventure for Cairn and other fantasy tabletop roleplaying systems that drops your adventuring party into the middle of Pact, a town on the brink: corpse thieves plunder the dead for unknown purposes, a vicious gang hunts men through the streets at night,… ## [Making Enemies: Just One Month Away!](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/making-enemies-just-one-month-away/) _2025-09-08 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ My latest title, Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games , is just 29 days away from publication! It’s been a long road and a long wait, but Making Enemies finally rolled off the presses last week, and on Friday I got to hold a copy in ## [Neither Reverence nor Contempt](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/neither-reverence-nor-contempt/) _2025-08-25 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ In another century, I studied photography. My advanced photography and senior seminar classes were taught by Professor Sean Wilkinson , now retired. As someone who stumbled sideways into visual art, I initially didn’t have much of a cognitive framework or vocabulary for thinking about it and discussing it, and ## [A Wizard Creates a Mountain; the Mountain Creates a Rain Shadow](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/a-wizard-creates-a-mountain-the-mountain-creates-a-rain-shadow/) _2025-08-05 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ One of the most enlightening things I’ve read on the topic of tabletop roleplaying games is an essay by Wolfgang Baur in The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding , “How Real Is Your World? History and Fantasy as a Spectrum of Design Options.” It was this essay that ## [Review: Midnight Muscadines](https://angelscitadel.com/2025/07/26/review-midnight-muscadines/) _2025-07-26 · countzeroasl · Storytelling and Gaming_ One of the things that we at Angel’s Citadel have tried to do is to be open and willing to help small, independent creators get their products in front of a wider audience. Chasing people down has never been our thing, but when they come to us, we try to help where we can. Admittedly, Continue reading Review: Midnight Muscadines ## [Dwarven Feast, Fine Dwarven Feast](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/dwarven-feast-fine-dwarven-feast/) _2025-07-16 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ Now that I’m done with my (cough) “speedrun” revising The Monsters Know What They’re Doing for 2025, I’m undertaking the long-overdue task of straightening up my desk, which includes dealing with an outrageous number of unfiled papers. Some of these papers, ## [It’s Been a Minute](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/its-been-a-minute/) _2025-07-15 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ I ended up going radio silent for longer than I intended to, but I think my reason is a pretty good one: I’ve just finished my first draft of a revision of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing for the 2025 Monster Manual . I began what ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/H9NiqPP7qrBh) _2025-07-15 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [There is a point to Tom Bombadil (or how I approach lore)](https://www.weirdwonder.net/tom-bombadil-or-how-i-approach-lore/) _2025-06-27 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ a very brief exploration of Tom Bombadil's role in Lord of the Rings and how it can be applied to adventure games. ## [Review: It’s Only Magic](https://angelscitadel.com/2025/05/26/review-its-only-magic/) _2025-05-26 · countzeroasl · Storytelling and Gaming_ For a long time as a child, I immersed myself in fantasy. I cut my teeth on Narnia, then the Hobbit, the early Dragonlance novels (Chronicles and Legends and the like), then eventually the Drizzt Do’Urden novels, and the rest of the Forgotten Realms among others. For many years, I stayed there, mostly because it Continue reading Review: It s Only Magic ## [Clearing the Air](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/clearing-the-air/) _2025-03-17 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ Last week, organizers announced on social media that Big Bad Con (an annual game convention held in Burlingame, Calif., in the fall) and Big Bad Online (a TTRPG-related panel discussion series streamed on Twitch in the spring) would not be held in 2025. They left unanswered the question of ## [Thoughts on an Antifascist RPG, Part 2](https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/thoughts-on-an-antifascist-rpg-part-2/) _2025-03-05 · Keith Ammann · One Foot in Fairyland_ (Read part 1 here .) In the early 1980s, a college-age programmer named Richard Garriott—who’d written and sold his first computer game, Akalabeth , as a teenager—had established a successful series of roleplaying games for the Apple II computer, but as he looked back on ## [Opposed themes and natural tension](https://www.weirdwonder.net/opposed-themes/) _2025-02-09 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ Amanda P. discusses dungeon design, specifically themes. ## [Found in Nature, Wrought by Wizards](https://www.weirdwonder.net/element-drabble/) _2025-02-08 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ Amanda P writes a brief drabble on the periodic table elements as petty gods ## [Arthurian Mysticism and Violence: a Mythic Bastionland Analysis](https://www.weirdwonder.net/mythic-bastionland/) _2025-01-24 · weirdwonder · Amanda P._ Weird Wonder, the blog of Amanda P. reviews Mythic Bastionland ## [The Great Railroad Debate](https://angelscitadel.com/2024/10/07/the-great-railroad-debate/) _2024-10-07 · zerosangel · Storytelling and Gaming_ A new article for your reading consumption? What the WHAT? No, your eyes are not deceiving you. We’re getting back in the saddle which is quite exciting, but we’re going slower this time around. Curse you “adult reality” that requires us to work and make money to pay bills! This adulting thing is disgusting… just Continue reading The Great Railroad Debate