A Star Wars Campaign

The idea for this post came when watching the first live stream from Star Wars Celebration which will still...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 8, 2023 8 min read

The Conversations The Thing

Learning from some relatively recent rpg reading I've learned the quality of my rpg experience is all about the...
Ian O'Rourke
Jan 16, 2023 5 min read

Approaching Scum & Villainy

These days I like to choose games to run where the challenge is in the execution not in just...
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 11, 2022 7 min read

Bourne-tastic Vampire Thriller

We recently came back from CottageCon, our weekend of gaming. It was a unique experience in that this was...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 8, 2022 7 min read

25th Century Trek

The brutal honesty regarding Star Trek: Picard season three is I didn’t need it to exist. I enjoyed season...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 22, 2023 8 min read

The Last of Us

This week I finished watching HBO’s The Last of Us. I have little doubt that it’s going to be...
Ian O'Rourke
Mar 18, 2023 7 min read

Tuning Into Wednesday

Little did I know I would be stepping into a nightmare. Full of mystery, mayhem, and murder. I think...
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 18, 2022 4 min read

The Perfection of Andor

I’d always had high hopes for Andor and I had those confirmed when I watched the first three episodes...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 26, 2022 5 min read

Exalted: One’s Fate. Forever And All Time

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Ian O'Rourke
Feb 10, 2024 5 min read

Exalted: Traits And The Great Curse

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Ian O'Rourke
Jan 11, 2024 6 min read

Exalted: A Discussion On Rules

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 15, 2023 8 min read

Exalted: Planning Through Structure

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 25, 2023 4 min read

Defending Main Character Energy?

Every generation creates terms for things that are either old or old but viewed through how life works now. We’ve had a slew of them around work and...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 27, 2024 2 min read

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High-Performance Gaming Groups

Should a role-playing game group be viewed through the characteristics of a high-performance team?
Ian O'Rourke
Sep 11, 2021 10 min read

Finding The Fate RPG Frustrating?

You often see the Fate RPG disliked for reasons that are nothing to do with the system itself. My take on why this happens.
Ian O'Rourke
Aug 21, 2021 13 min read

My TTRPG Principles

These are the principles I hold to when running and playing a TTRPG.
Ian O'Rourke
Sep 12, 2020 5 min read

Delivering On Homo Fictitious

Delivering on your player characters being Homo Fictitious depends on following a handful of principles.
Ian O'Rourke
Aug 3, 2020 9 min read

Creating My RPG Characters

How I create my tabletop RPG characters.
Ian O'Rourke
Jul 18, 2020 7 min read

Top 3 TTRPG Campaign Influences

When it comes to the things that influence your current tabletop role-playing campaign (herein TTRPG) the list can be..long. That’s also just probably your...
Ian O'Rourke
Jul 15, 2020 7 min read

How The GM ‘Plots’

How the GM 'plots' when all the table is authoring!
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 10, 2020 13 min read

How The Table ‘Plots’

The importance of signals when all the table plots!
Ian O'Rourke
Mar 14, 2020 11 min read

Influential RPGs I’ve Run

These are the role-playing games that have influenced me the most that I've run!
Ian O'Rourke
Mar 12, 2020 6 min read

Executing A Short Campaign

Executing a short campaign isn't an exercise in imagining a long campaign hacked down to size.
Ian O'Rourke
Jan 5, 2020 11 min read
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