Sam Sorensen

The evening of Saturday, June 27th, 2026, some friends and I—including Walid from Dead Letters and ty from OVER/UNDER—are running a megagame version of Diplomacy, which we call Super-Diplomacy.

In October 2021, the popular tabletop RPG actual play channel Legends of Avantris began releasing episodes of their “Edge of Midnight” Dungeons & Dragons horror campaign series, with the first season of nineteen episodes concluding in May, 2022.

Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post.

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Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post.

Late in 2024, I started a big list on my phone of new words I encountered that I didn’t know, with short definitions for each.

Development editing occurs while the manuscript is still being written.

When I sit down to read a new RPG book or play at a new RPG table, I’ve got three questions in mind.

“Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremburg,” courtesy of my beloved Met Every other year, tradition obligates the Grand Duchess of the Thassoloche to call Saint Hunegund’s Tourney, named for Saint-Queen Hunegund the Headtaker, the Thassoloche’s legend…

Remove instances of here from location descriptions—it’s obvious you’re describing the location already.

You can now join the Discord server and read the rules.

Tagged by blark as a part of Stella’s relay.

When they step into moonlight, those bearing the lycanthrope’s curse transform into wolves.

Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post.

Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post.

Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post.

My roommate ty asks an important question of each game he plays.

Remove instances of “to be” verbs: be, am, is, are, was, were, being, and been.

Ten years ago, Steven Soderbergh released an unusual cut of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark: he put the entire film in black and white, then removed all the audio and replaced it with Trent Reznor’s soundtrack to The Social Network.

A question: you ever try to run a campaign with a city in it?

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About four years ago, my friend and longtime collaborator nuclearobelisk and I made a campaign guide for running a West Marches-style game, specifically for 5e.

In 5th grade, my first year of middle school, I joined the Dungeons & Dragons club.

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Does the MDA Framework Apply to Tabletop RPGs?

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On Monday, my Mothership adventure Time After Time released.

Something I’ve noticed: it takes about five sessions to get a campaign going.

It’s been a minute!

In tabletop RPG books, dice are correctly notated as “1d6,” that is, [quantity of dice]d[die size]. 1d20, 6d6, 3d8, and so on—all correct.

Recently, I started an open-table megadungeon campaign using a megadungeon I’m working on, working-titled “Pandemonium.”