LEO DOULTON

An item for D&D and other TTRPGs. Everyone has heard of Schrödinger’s Cat. ( If you haven’t: it sits in a box with a flask of poison, a...

This is, perhaps, my greatest (only) contribution to the field of Wagner studies. The essential question of: Could you run a D&D campaign...

Real world religions and philosophies exist. Fictional religions and philosophies also exist, in a different way. And most religions and...

A friend and one of my regular players in various TTRPG campaigns recently asked me for GMing advice. While I could wax lyrical for some...

Continuing this week’s theme of cosmic horror, a brief reflection on Lovecraftian characters. The Root A player in a Call of...

Introduction There are others who write better about bioessentialism in Dungeons & Dragons, and how it reflects real-world...

In addition to my theatrical work, and at the beginning of a week of blogs around cosmic horror, I thought I’d delve a little into game...

An analogy I see pop up in a certain amount of literature about game-performance from LARPs to interactive theatre is the...

Update: I've had some further thoughts on why this is wrong. TL;DR: it’s two well-formatted A4 pages for information that’s regularly...

Future Leo, here’s your one-minute pitch next time you have to give one: I’m Leo, a writer, director, game designer and performer working...

I’ve recently had the pleasure of playtesting 12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of Capital, Revolution, and Blatant Theft, the second part of my...

I haven’t always been a game designer, or creator of interactive experiences. But when I was a child, there was a promise on a box I’d...

If you play Dungeons & Dragons, you’ve almost certainly encountered the trope of the ancient, evil empire. The one which left vaults of...

Within the indie TTRPG space, there is a common joke: that people have more TTRPGs than they will ever play, but keep buying more. That...

This will make very little sense unless you've read the first part (on TTRPGs) here, or the second part (on opera as a social game) here....

This will make a lot more sense if you've read the first part here. At first, I thought I’d do this via the Marxian models I tend to use....

I’m currently reworking the game rules used in We Sing/I Sang (working title for the rules: ‘Our People’s Song’). I’m not an expert game...