I truly enjoy playing role-playing games. I truly enjoy running role-playing games. For the last decade, I’ve often found myself in the GM’s chair, crafting narratives and orchestrating encounters for my fellow gamers. As fun as this role can be, I’ve often missed being a player, navigating through the trials and tribulations of a carefully …
Changing Gears: A Foray Into the World of Solo RPGs Read More »
Sometimes in life, you need to change gears. Change your job, change your home, change your state … or even change your game. And sometimes, you need to change all the gears at once, as we saw during the pandemic, when many of us saw our real-world games disappear within a manner of days while …
Cyberpunk RED – the fourth edition of R. Talsorian Games’ s signature role-playing game – inherited a rich history and loyal following from its predecessors. As Lair of Secrets geared up for its our Cyberpunk RED campaign, we went looking for – and found – a ton of links dedicated to advice, preparation, cartography, and battle maps. Have suggestions …
Bullet journals are a great way to stay focused and organized in your regular life … so why not extend them to your gaming life? Bullet journal techniques can be used to track the games you’re playing, as well as your progress through them. At the most basic level, you can use it to track …
Before we played Scum & Villainy, even before starting the Lair of Secrets, we played Blades in the Dark. It’s an urban fantasy role-playing game centered on heists and inspired by the likes of Leverage, the Ocean’s movies, Peaky Blinders, Heat, and Reservoir Dogs. Like its successor games, in Blades in the Dark, player characters are documented using playbooks. The playbooks are like a …
This announcement was originally posted over on Chris Miller’s personal site. Thanks for doing this Chris! Hello folks! As previously mentioned on this site, I’m organizing a cyberpunk book club. The goal is to read some of the staples of the genre and discuss them with other fun people. The stories I have in mind …
Announcing The Neon Library, a Cyberpunk book discussion group Read More »
Gaslands Refueled is a miniature car combat game inspired by Death Race and Mad Max, in which Matchbox cars packed with deadly arsenals tear around tabletop race tracks. We first talked about it back in Season 1, Episode 20, when David played it with his family.vMore than a year later, I got to play the game by …
A virtual bullet journal combines the mindful benefits of a daily journal with a digital notebook that’s easy to take with you anywhere, particularly if you’re using your phone.. Depending on your approach to digital bullet journaling, another advantage over traditional paper journals is not having to write our your notes longhand … or having …
We are planning our next actual play arc now and as part of that we wanted to try out a new-to-us virtual tabletop, TaleSpire! This is our TaleSpire review and the experience we’ve had with it so far. I (David) have had TaleSpire for a while now but haven’t used it much. Mainly because as …
TaleSpire review: The start of our virtual tabletop adventures! Read More »
We’re hosting our first-ever loot giveaway at the Lair of Secrets, featuring an assortment of RPG books and supplements given out as part of Free RPG Day 2022. How do you participate? Promote @LairOfSecrets on Twitter by: Posting a tweet about @LairOfSecrets to your followers. Responding to a @LairOfSecrets tweet We’ll then contact you via …
