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• Lazy Declaration – you're always being judged

  The power of not caring what you're gonna do until you've done it. Here's an option you can add to most conventional RPGs that have a core mechanic. It's called Lazy Declaration, and it's inspired by ...

• Table Secrets! Or how to play (old, maybe newer) D&D in a world where RAW is a lie. – you're always

  If you play without a map you savour these as uncommon delicacies. So around 15 years ago I started sitting in on RPG sessions as a third party to directly observe how people interact with the rules, ...

• Selected Publications – you're always being judged

  July 2020 Note: This list is now very incomplete, as now that Green Ronin is my regular client work with them, along with some other new work, has not been included. I'll remove this note when that ch...

• Contact – you're always being judged

  I'm credited as Malcolm Sheppard on a bunch of games and books and one research project and a couple of other things. I've been writing for money for what, 17 years now? Contact me through Twitter @Ma...

• Deep Space Nine, Season Nine (and Eight) – you're always being judged

  Let’s do Deep Space Nine again. Okay, context. The first thing you need to know is Canadian Netflix is pretty bad, and we didn’t get on demand access to Deep Space Nine for years. Our SF/fantasy/inter...

• Writing for Nonlinear Readers – you're always being judged

  Folks like roleplaying games to read like fiction, like technical manuals, or like something in between. The in-between options are generally the best received. In my experience, people who argue stro...