BROSR Principles: A Primer
Over the last couple of years, the lads in the #BROSR have reinvigorated the ossified field of tabletop RPGs by incorporating the solid design principles laid down by the giants of the pre-1980s collapse. We’ve spilled a lot of ink – and I’ve published a number of videos –...
Eddie’s Brovenloft
The man, the myth, the legend behind the lich, the myth, the legend posted his experience running Eddie But In Hieroglyphics through the Brovenloft meatgrinder. The bad news is he posted it over on Twitter. That site is so ephemeral and this thread so amazing, it seemed a shame...
Brovenloft: Lessons Learned
There’s a natural ebb and flow to conflict games, and D&D played right is no exception. The first BROSR campaign, Trollopulous, kicked off on a very slow note due to the lack of information available to all players. Strict adherence to 1:1 timekeeping meant that messages crawled around a...
Fluid’s Brovenloft
Straight from the DM’s mouth, what it looks like to send the players at your D&D table into the teeth of a Braunstein, patron-play campaign. This is how you bridge the gap between powerful patrons and the more street-level D&D with which most people are familiar. The man who...
The Rat King’s Tale
Herewith: the secret history of The Rat King. When the guys in the BROSR started kicking around ideas for factions they might play in the BROvenloft extravaganza, I decided to finally throw my crown in the ring. Instead of a military power like that of Kangsta Wrapper the mummy...
The War For Sneedville: An Introduction
The next major project for The Joy of Wargaming will be something a little different. I’m not going to play any of the battles out on my tabletop (if I can help it). You Are. I’ve got a full explanation over at The Joy of Wargaming, but for you...
Wargame Campaigns by Henry Hyde
This is a beast of a book, weighing in at over 500 pages. It is as complete and thorough a treatment of the subject as we have seen since the days of Featherstone and Bath. And it includes gems like this: All in all, “Wargaming Campaigns” is a fun...
Enter the BROSR Matrix
Let’s walk back some of the derision that I heaped on Matrix Games last week, shall we? I’ve been reading up on the subject because somebody smarter than me recommended them. Also, they look like a style of gaming that has something to offer the #BROSR in the way...
Experimental Wargaming
Today things fell into place for an interesting wargaming experiment. SPOILER ALERT FOR THE ONGOING CAMPAIGN! For those of you not playing along at home, Mondays we post an update to a Chainmail campaign in which the Broman Empire seeks to reclaim a powerful artifact from a tomb located...
Thar’s Doin’s Afoot
The #Trollopulous MegaVerse is the most interesting thing to happen to D&D in decades. Those glorious edgelording bastards in the #BROSR found a way to reinvigorate a hobby that had plateaued and they did it by taking a game everyone owns but doesn’t play and, for the first time...