Archive - Thaumavoria

Daggerheart's Card System: Essential Feature or Elaborate Gimmick?

Why Critical Role's latest RPG might work better without its signature feature

Jun 18

May 2025

From Circuit Bending to Reality Bending: The DIY Roots of Slugblaster's Interdimensional Skateboarding

Let's find out how Mikey Hamm obsessively crafted Slugblaster through relentless collaboration

May 25

From Silver ENNIES to a SUPERS Smackdown: How Outgunned is Revolutionizing Superhero TTRPGs

Simone Formicola reveals the secrets behind the award-winning system that's bringing cinematic superhero action to your table

May 13

April 2025

I drafted a legal argument against Wizards of the Coast - and you can too!

WotC is trying to pull off a licensing clawback just two years after the OGL Debacle, and I figured out how to punch back.

Apr 24

The Endless Night: Creating a Vampire Hunter D Tabletop RPG

I don’t know why one doesn’t exist yet, but here’s how I’d design a VHD RPG

Apr 14

Honor, Death, and Second Chances: The Innovative Mechanics Behind This Samurai RPG

RŌNIN Creator Sacha Lightfoot how traditional Japanese values shaped a Mork Borg feudal fantasy samurai masterpiece

Apr 8

March 2025

Nuns with Guns: Inside Sisterhood, the TTRPG Where the Habit does the Kicking

Charlie Menzies on blending noir aesthetics, clever tactical combat, and post-WWII religious history

Mar 28

From Hellboy Homage to Six-Shooter Epic

Steven Alexander’s noir FBI concept mutates into a blazing Wyrd West odyssey

Mar 18

Pooh Goes Solo—No Death, Just Naps

Creator Ash Swain explains Why Gentle Combat And Resource Management Elevate The Hundred Acre Wood

Mar 13

From D&D To Holy Grail: One Man's Monty Python Obsession Exposed

And why Brian Saliba's 350-page ‘love letter’ stands ready to spawn even more absurd expansions

Mar 5

February 2025

Inside Triangle Agency: Where Corporate Horror Meets High-Powered Paranormal

Caleb & Sean Share Their Reality-Warping TTRPG’s Twists and Terrors

Feb 18

January 2025

D&D Isn’t Enough: Why Grimwild Fills a Gap in Heroic Fantasy RPGs

J.D. Maxwell Explains His Revolutionary Take on Mid-Crunch Narrative Play

Jan 27

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