So, you may notice RBE has a new look, courtesy of the soulless bloodsuckers at Photobucket, which changed its terms of service Wednesday re...

I received my copy of Osprey Publishing's French Musketeer 1622-1775 before I went on vacation. I don't want to get into a review o...

On Wednesday I wrote about one of the pitfalls associated with using a player character's ability or skill score as the target number fo...

In the winter of 1625, Riordan O'Neill, a King's Musketeer, and Guillaume Sébastien, a physician, were, at the behest of the duke of...

Pop quiz, hotshot. What do Santa Claus, Vito Corleone, and Emperor Palpatine have in common? I channeled all of them while roleplaying Car...

Gonsalvo at Blunders on the Danube recently concluded continued his series of posts on his Seventies-vintage English Civil War armies. En...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've written at some length over the many ways in which I put together random encounters for my campaign....

Robots & Rapiers was a roleplaying game based on the premise of AI robots at a resort planet continuing to fulfill their roles long af...

Backswords & Bucklers is one of my favorite D&D variants to come out of the OSR. Beedo at Dreams in the Lich House posted a very g...

Rory’s Story Cubes are a remarkably simple and effective means for inspiring creative thinking and problem solving in all of us. Simply toss...

Last Friday, pitcher Barry Zito became an unlikely hero to the baseball fans of San Francisco when he pitched 7 2/3 shutout innings and save...

I've written at length about the social aspects of the cape-and-sword sandbox , that the swashbucklers' game-world is less focused o...

By way of Mitch Williamson at War and Game , I discovered Spanish Fury and Very Civile Actions! , a pair of sixteenth and seventeenth centu...

Awhile back I drew the analogy between social relations in a cape-and-sword campaign and the dungeon and even megadungeon of the old schoo...

During the course of our game today, the adventurers found themselves on the road, travelling from Turin to Milan, so I decided to give the ...

I've mentioned my Flashing Blades campaign, Le Ballet de l'Acier - The Dance of Steel - a number of times in different posts, to h...