Raven Crowking's Nest

I am trying to decide between Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, Mutant Future, and Stars Without Number for my example minor adventure site.  D...

I recommended earlier that the initial area for a sandbox milieu contains at least three major and six minor adventure sites.  The reason ...

The first look at the RCFG owlbear: And here is the RCFG goblin, riding a black goat, with a pair of banefoxes: An amphisba...

Every area designed for a sandbox occurs as part of a larger whole, and this is no less true for the initial area than for any other.  Not...

In some cases, and in particular in modules like T1 Village of Hommlet and N1 Cult of the Reptile God , the outdoors area is sketchy at b...

I have noticed a number of threads on various RPG sites that seem to relate, at least tangentially, to this discussion.  In some, the idea...

Let us imagine that you’ve decided you want to run a sandbox-style game, and you have chosen an appropriate system.  Now, you have pads of...

Last time, we continued our look at why system matters, and I left you (still) partway through a list of features that a good sandbox game...

Here is some artwork that I did for RCFG.  It isn't in colour (yet), but I thought some might find it interesting. The first up is o...