Tabletop RPGs

Tabletop role-playing games, tools, and systems with a focus on mechanics, usability, and long-term play value.

Tabletop RPG terrain diorama built from cardboard, household materials, and reused packaging.

Building Tabletop RPG Environments With What You Already Have

Tabletop RPG environments do not need kits, foamboard, or shopping lists. They need to exist. This post breaks down a constraint-based approach to building terrain and dioramas from household materials, where mistakes are part of the process and environments come before rules.

Teenagers playing a Star Wars pen-and-paper RPG with character sheets and dice in the 1990s

The First RPG I Ever Played Was Star Wars, and We Were All Dead by Round Three

My first RPG wasn’t a video game. It was a Star Wars pen-and-paper RPG played with dice, character sheets, and imagination. We didn’t own the rulebook, campaigns took months, and by round three, everyone was dead.