Win the Race: Character Creation in Arora: Age of Desolation

Win the Race: Character Creation in Arora: Age of Desolation

The world of Arora, currently being funded through the Arora: Age of Desolation Kickstarter, is something that has been swirling around in my brain for over 10 years. If I’m honest, it’s probably been kicking around the dark spaces of my gray matter since I began...
Revisiting Warlocks from Earlier Editions to 5e

Revisiting Warlocks from Earlier Editions to 5e

I’ve been playing tabletop roleplaying games for a long, long time. I have dice older than many of the people I work with at Ghostfire Gaming. I’ve read previous editions before 5e where there were classes that were just races, and classes that could only be played by...
The Filth Grazer – Creating a Grim Hollow Monster

The Filth Grazer – Creating a Grim Hollow Monster

There’s an old saying in RPG game design: Don’t create a stat block for creatures that you don’t want players to kill. One of the most popular books of an earlier roleplaying era was Deities and Demigods. For me as a tween, this book taught me as much about the basics...
Rumblings from the Word Mines – a peek into the process

Rumblings from the Word Mines – a peek into the process


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Welcome to Rumblings from the Word Mines An article from our Executive Lead Designer, Shawn Merwin   This is a planned series of articles talking about RPG design and taking some behind-the-scenes looks at projects here at Ghostfire Gaming. In this first article,...
A Grim Hollow “Ask Me Anything! with Shawn Merwin!

A Grim Hollow “Ask Me Anything! with Shawn Merwin!

Over the last month, the third instalment of our Grim Hollow series; Grim Hollow: The Monster Grimoire was live on Kickstarter. In light of this, we wanted to give some time to our community, to help answer some of their burning questions on this new addition to...