I. Dear Reader, I was reading Justin Alexander’s book So You Want To Be a Game Master this week and something very obvious sneaked up on me. When someone says a book is for “new GMs”, they’re going to have to imagine some kind of person when they say that. When you say “new GMs”, […]

There’s two posts from Dice Exploder on PbtA Principles and Moves ( Apocalyptic Principles and Millers Law, and More on Apocalyptic Principles ) and I thought it would be worth expanding a bit on the ideas there. Resilient vs. Fragile Design Something I saw Vincent Baker write about, in designing Apocalypse World, was that the […]

I was trying to quickly search one of my older posts, and apparently typing in my name had Google “helpfully” offer this AI tidbit about the Same Page Tool… which is literally wrong from the first sentence. I try not to full on rant too much but… fuck AI so here we go. The game […]

Yochai Gal is the designer of the forest fantasy RPG Cairn. Right now, Cairn second edition boxed set is live on Kickstarter. In this episode we talk about how Yochai grew the first edition of Cairn into this new expanded RPG marvel. Cairn Kickstarter ⁠https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557907976/cairn-2e-boxed-set Yochai's first two appearances on The Lost Bay Podcast https://…