Lore & Mortar
Lore & Mortar #1: What Do They Eat?
Figuring out what your NPCs eat will help you answer auxiliary questions about how your setting works.
guides
world
The Gameplay Value of Frontiers
Where to place an adventure matters. A frontier is the perfect setting for tabletop campaigns.
city
How Borough Bound Designs an RPG City
From ideation to final edits, here's the full process Borough Bound uses to create tabletop settlements. Please steal our ideas!
music
Use Weirder Tabletop Music
An unexpected music choice can immediately invigorate a TTRPG encounter and dramatically alter how your players conceptualize the scene.
music
Looping Tabletop Music: The Do’s and Don’ts
Should you loop each track when you're scoring a TTRPG campaign? The question is more complicated than you might suspect.
design
The Hub-and-Spoke Dungeon
The hub-and-spoke dungeon is easy to design, easy to explore, and filled with unpredictable nonlinearity.
guides
Justify Tabletop Combat With Genre
If your party won’t engage in violence, consider tweaking the genre to make combat seem more reasonable.
structure
How to Structure a Magic School Campaign
Running a TTRPG campaign in a magic school creates unique challenges for how to organize playtime.
NPCs
Every NPC a Short Story
When designing NPCs for your tabletop campaigns, think of each as an unfinished short story.
music
Score Your Tabletop Sessions with Playlists
It's easy to bring music to your TTRPG campaigns using pre-built playlists on Spotify and similar streaming services
world
200+ Questions To Build Your Fantasy Campaign World
Answer these, and your world will be well on its way
dungeons
The Social Dungeon
Everything you need to run unique quests that prioritize non-combat skills