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Who Are the Dice?
5 Examples of a TTRPG Design Approach You Can Use A while ago I wrote a blog post about how in TTRPGs, dice aren’t what you think . If...
James Kerr
Nov 28, 20248 min read
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Modiphius Star Trek and Reinforcing Genre in Roleplaying
A middling dive into my favourite fiction and its most recent TTRPG adaptation My old joke is that I design games not for GMs at their...
James Kerr
Sep 29, 20249 min read
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Mothership 1e and Participation Mechanics in TTRPGs
A middling dive into Tuesday Knight Games' Mothership and why I don't jive with it After backing the Mothership Kickstarter from Tuesday...
James Kerr
Jun 24, 20249 min read
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Radio James Games 2024 Preview: Kaiju Kontrol
A new game from Radio James Games coming in 2024 I’m shy to talk about myself, so I’m not great at promoting my things, but, I am excited...
James Kerr
Apr 16, 20242 min read
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Radio James Games 2024 Preview: The Psychic Danger Society
A new game from Radio James Games coming in 2024 There’s always half a dozen major TTRPG projects in various stages of development all...
James Kerr
Apr 9, 20243 min read
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Radio James Games 2024 Preview: Bettin’ Bullets
A new game from Radio James Games coming in 2024 It’s maybe a little strange to talk about the 2024 plans for Radio James Games now that...
James Kerr
Apr 2, 20243 min read
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What Solo TTRPGs Could Have Meant
How One Player TTRPGs Show the True Future of the Hobby, and My Past Before anything else, let's get out of the way that my new one...
James Kerr
Jan 12, 20244 min read
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Modiphius’ Dune and the Lens of Play
An anecdotal review of the TTTPPG game-line and a dive into the Lens of Play design concept Dune has a Superman Problem. The “Superman...
James Kerr
Jan 2, 20248 min read
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TTRPG Game Lines Vs. One-off Books
Exploring Publishing Plans, and How Much Life Should One Game Have? It's time to start kicking up a fuss, I suppose. This isn't a...
James Kerr
Dec 13, 20236 min read
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Publishing Normal
Understanding the Baseline in indie TTRPG Publishing In an effort to arm those new to TTRPG publishing, I wanted to write down the...
James Kerr
Oct 30, 20236 min read
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Die: The RPG, a Failure of Imagination
A crabby blog complaining about ttrpg design, at least this time I am supportive of the indie ttrpg industry—I make my home in this...
James Kerr
Sep 9, 20237 min read
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The One-Player Problem in TTRPGs
Breaking down one of the worst trends to ttrpg design philosophy There is a problem with individualist philosophy in ttrpg design and...
James Kerr
Jul 21, 20237 min read
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Dice Are Not What You Think
Dirty dice design secrets revealed! Roleplaying’s most commonly held mechanical underpinning is due for deconstruction What are dice?...
James Kerr
Mar 22, 20237 min read
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TTRPGs Should Read Like Magazines
How Moonlight on Roseville Beach schools the indie ttrpg industry I work in magazines, and I've always been adamant that table-top...
James Kerr
Feb 24, 20237 min read
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The TTRPG-Storygame Intersection
An analysis of Here We Used to Fly and where it belongs in games I backed the Kickstarter for Here We Used to Fly, a ttrpg by fellow...
James Kerr
Feb 15, 20234 min read
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Every TTRPG has a Second Game Inside
A table-top role-playing game development blog There’s a secret in table-top role-playing games. Hidden inside every ttrpg is another,...
James Kerr
Nov 18, 20223 min read
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Playtesting is Elitist
A table-top role-playing game development blog For fun, let's go through the development timeline of an indie ttrpg as I try to puzzle...
James Kerr
Oct 23, 20227 min read
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Why I Hate Character Concepts
Character concepts in ttrpgs
James Kerr
Oct 7, 20227 min read
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The Bad Whiff of Role-Playing
Taking Another Look at TTRPGs Most Common Result This is the moment—it has all been leading up to this. Roll the dice, and if you succeed...
James Kerr
Aug 1, 20226 min read
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The Pain of Quickstarts
The development blog of table-top role-playing game "Fight to Survive: Role-playing Martial Arts Meets Heart" by James Kerr With Fight to...
James Kerr
Jun 29, 20223 min read
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