
The Play Fearless Newsletter delivers weekly RPG insights, tips, and stories for GMs, players, and designers, packed with game recaps, creative ideas, and behind-the-scenes looks to inspire your next tabletop session.
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“And I check the odds and I place my bet” - Sheryl Crow, Leaving Las Vegas
Six years on Substack. Good software. Good people. Zero support for the Games category, which is the thing I’ve been writing about the entire time. I want to run...
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The very first Monday Musing — June 26, 2023, released from the Substack paywall today — has 🤔 standing in for the 🤬 that would eventually take over. It was about Cortex Prime wr...
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For 154 Mondays, I’ve written about other people’s games. Twilight: 2000. Burning Wheel. The Black Sword Hack. Mythic Bastionland. Apocalypse World. Coriolis. Monster of the Week....
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Posted as part of W.F. Smith’s Random Blogwagon at Prismatic Wasteland. Roll your own day, write your own post. I got: ‘post on June 7th.’
Pull a card out of a 52-card deck and the deck changes. The pro...
Play. Run. X-Card. Forever.
You know the parlor game Kiss, Marry, Kill (AKA F/M/K). Three names. Pick one to do for the rest of your life. Pick one for fun. Pick one to send to the void. Every party in America for t...
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GM-At-Large. Cranky Indie Game Designer, Working on Lifted, a Supers RPG powered by Cortex. Writes about TTRPGs and Dadness, 10X play and my giant dogs. You get XP for subscribing.
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