Our Mission
The goal of this website is to make tabletop roleplaying games more accessible. To that end, we write articles about various topics. These topics include: fundamental techniques that are useful for any tabletop RPG; summaries of the basic rules to specific tabletop RPGs; and case studies of how certain rules and techniques can be used in tabletop RPGs.
The length of many rulebooks for these games can exceed 300 pages. This can be a challenge for potential players for many reasons, including psychological difficulties reading, language barriers, or simply not having time to do such extensive reading.
We believe this sort of accessibility and exposure is a boon to independent creators: as tabletop RPGs are a social hobby, it benefits players and publishers alike when there are more people willing and able to participate.
Statement of Ethics
Our goal is to help potential players of tabletop RPGs to more easily understand their lengthy rulebooks. However, we realize that these rulebooks are also the primary product of many such games.
Thus, our best practice is to avoid including data from the rulebooks in our published articles that would potentially invalidate the need for possessing a copy of the rulebook.
Statement on Generative Artificial Intelligence
The tools we collectively know of as Artificial Intelligence in the year 2025 have purpose. They’re effective at identifying patterns and making predictions based on those patterns.
However its name is misleading. It is not intelligent in that it does not truly understand what it is learning. This is part of what leads to the phenomenon known as “Hallucinations.” When Generative AI writes text, it “guesses” what words should go in what order, based on what would seem to make sense. It does this regardless of if the end result is factual or reasonable.
(Some of our own experiments with AI included suggestions for discussions about tabletop RPGs, and it suggested “mixing classes” in a game that has no such system in character creation!)
This possibility of inaccuracy, combined with the energy and cooling demands of AI make its use for this project wasteful. Further, If what is generated by AI needs to be fact checked after it has been written via consulting a rulebook over 300 pages long, why not simply write the summary after having a human read it?
Moreover, even if AI were effective, accurate, and efficient for our purposes: reading the rulebooks are half the fun us!
