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veritas tabletop home about where to find me series tags mastodon bluesky x my products sign in subscribe rpg homebrew and advice inspired by history planning a campaign planning a campaign session 0 and player backstories i ve been slowly putting out this series about actually prepping a campaign so you can see how i incorporate all of the history and gm theory stuff i talked about on the blog into an actual campaign check out the whole series below planning a campaigna glimpse into 24 nov 2025 8 min read planning a campaign planning a campaign faction building this is part of my new series where i walk through how i prepare for a new campaign to show how i integrate all the historical rpg techniques that i talk about on this blog check out the whole series here and definitely read part 1 before you read today 17 nov 2025 10 min read rethinking fantasy your worldbuilding needs more sports what sports are played for leisure in your world i say this as someone who is not a big sports fan it is undeniable that sports are a huge element of culture from bans on sports being a mode of cultural repression as in the suppression of traditional irish sports 10 nov 2025 7 min read planning a campaign planning a campaign premise and setting welcome to my new series planning a campaign my next big campaign which i m planning to run for a year or more is set to start in january this means that the past few weeks has been spent actually trying to get the basic premise sketched out and 03 nov 2025 9 min read now live now live the zombie for vaesen this month we ve been exploring the zombie you can check out the full series here last week we focused on exploring the zombie in dungeons dragons and found the creature as written to be pretty good for our zombie as oppressive capitalism metaphor this week i 27 oct 2025 2 min read revising zombies zombies in dungeons dragons this october i m looking at the classic undead monster the zombie check out the full series using this link last week we focused on different meanings and depictions of zombies across time and we picked out what defines a zombie for the purposes of this series to make 20 oct 2025 10 min read revising zombies zombies history myth last year to celebrate halloween i dedicated the entire month of october to a series about how to rethink vampires this year i m going to do the same thing but for zombies the much maligned no longer particularly scary low tier undead common to rpgs except i 13 oct 2025 13 min read review review cinderedge before delving into this year s october series properly i wanted to kick off the month not with an article on zombies but with a review of a solo game that i got a chance to try recently and which has a physical version going live on kickstarter tomorrow 06 oct 2025 7 min read media studies give everyone a spotlight lessons from heroes in my partner s continuing quest to expose me to all of the tv shows that i completely missed as a child i ve recently been watching the first season of heroes for those like me who were previously unfamiliar with the show it is 1 very good 29 sep 2025 7 min read rethinking fantasy it s hard to find good help part 2 last week i wrote about the basic structure that exists in the household staff of the rich during the medieval renaissance and early modern periods the rich could not have the glamor that we associate with them without their servant staffs and the downstairs hierarchy is just as 22 sep 2025 11 min read rethinking fantasy it s hard to find good help part 1 whenever we think about the concept of nobility in the middle ages renaissance or later it is hard to disentangle the life of the upper class from the role of their servants in an era before washing machines or laundromats the wealthy and even many of the upper bourgeoisie like 15 sep 2025 10 min read practical ideas the name list my past several posts have been pretty worldbuilding oriented so i wanted to do something more immediately practical this week one of the classic d d problems is when players and the gm have a differing sense of what the tone of the world is the dungeons 08 sep 2025 10 min read media studies lessons from the gilded age old money vs new money i ve been watching hbo s the gilded age recently and it has made me start thinking about the conflict between old money and new money the major theme and conflict of the show my primary home world is pre industrial which means that we don t 01 sep 2025 10 min read campaign reflections reflections on wrestling when i last finished a long running campaign a little over a year ago oh god its been so long since i ve had a big campaign i wrote an article reflecting on it devoted followers of the blog or my social media will know that i ve 25 aug 2025 6 min read worldbuilding in five glasses worldbuilding beverages follow up example dwarvish drinks back in april i released a guide on building your own drinks to enhance your worldbuilding on drivethrurpg you can pick up that guide for only one dollar followers of the blog will also know that i ve been running a campaign using the system world wide wrestling but 18 aug 2025 5 min read members only coins and currencies coins and currency adding flavor to your coins the past two weeks on the blog have been my three part series on currency and coinage this week is the last part so far i ve talked about the existing currency system of dungeons dragons and what the principles and math that underpinned a lot of medieval 11 aug 2025 18 min read members only coins and currencies coins and currency building a foundation last week i started my three part series on currency and coinage i talked about the existing currency system of dungeons dragons how the common silver standard can fix the price of common goods but doesn t really improve the realism of the system and how 04 aug 2025 13 min read coins and currencies coins and currency as it stands everyone knows that d d s economy is non functional to say the least it is the subject of a ton of blog posts reddit posts forum threads youtube videos and even an entire tome of a supplement that i reviewed in college one of my players an 28 jul 2025 7 min read media studies building tension ttrpg lessons from pandemic i absolutely love the board game pandemic it was one of the first serious board games i played after betrayal at the house on the hill it is still one of my favorites it is challenging but winnable the system is easy to understand but you can get 21 jul 2025 9 min read review review world wide wrestling by nathan paoletta if you ve been following my social media are in my real life gaming group or subscribe to the monthly roundup of the blog you already know that my newest campaign that i m running is not d d or any other high fantasy system instead despite 14 jul 2025 7 min read media studies running political intrigue ttrpg lessons from suzerain recently i have been extremely into the video game suzerain by torpor games i ve described it to friends as the most complicated choose your own adventure ever in it you play as the president of a fictional country in a fictionalized version that takes inspiration from 07 jul 2025 8 min read rethinking fantasy your worldbuilding needs more cows over my spring break i went to texas and one of the places that i visited was the fort worth cattle stockyards it made me start thinking more about the cattle industry of prime importance to the settlement of the american west and something that i completely skipped over in 26 may 2025 7 min read members only worldbuilding with government life cycles life cycle of a revolution part 3 last week we covered the initial victory of a revolution and subsequent dissolving of the bonds of unity subscribers were able to read how i applied the lessons about these phases to a revolution in my own homebrew world as a reminder this is not meant to be the only 19 may 2025 10 min read members only worldbuilding with government life cycles life cycle of a revolution part 2 last week we covered the first stages of the life cycle of a revolution as the existing regime is destabilized exposed and ultimately revolutionary forces are violently unleashed upon it subscribers were able to read how i applied the lessons about these phases to a revolution in my own homebrew 12 may 2025 11 min read members only worldbuilding with government life cycles life cycle of a revolution part 1 back in march i wrote about how several historical empires of the ancient and medieval worlds followed essentially the same arc in a two part series you can check out part 1 and part 2 we can use that arc as a way to quickly build a history for a 05 may 2025 10 min read page 1 of 4 older posts veritas tabletop 2026 sign up my homebrew reviews history articles rss feed leave a tip money powered by ghost