Failure Tolerated is a blog by Sean McCoy, co-founder of Tuesday Knight Games, co-designer of Two Rooms and a Boom, and designer of Mothership. He also does a weekly podcast about boardgaming, and occasionally writes horror fiction. You can support this blog by donating here.
Stop Worrying About Layout Software
A Small Rant About Investigation in RPGs
Survive, Solve, or Save: Pick Two
March 16, 2019 - Eleven Questions about Layout in RPGs
February 26, 2019 - Mawbreakers: A Weird WW2 Para-shooter RPG
January 27, 2019 - Building Custom Backgrounds for Mothership
January 23, 2019 - My First Shootout
January 21, 2019 - Stop Worrying About Layout Software
January 20, 2019 - Painless Character Creation for a Painful Game
January 14, 2019 - Why Setting High Stakes Matters
December 27, 2018 - How to Create a Criminal
December 17, 2018 - Rey Burtnolds Debriefing Communicades: Session Archive [Mothership]
December 13, 2018 - A Small Rant about Investigation in RPGs
December 7, 2018 - Better Crits for Mothership
December 6, 2018 - Carousing & Stress in Mothership
November 9, 2018 - Critical Hit Tables for Mothership
October 12, 2018 - The End of G+ and an OSR Guide For The Perplexed
August 31, 2018 - Divine Right: Minaria as a D&D Setting
August 22, 2018 - Yanovich’s Inauguration: Session Report [Insurgency]
August 14, 2018 - Prisoners of Hecate Balaam: Session Report [Mothership]
August 7, 2018 - Notes from Gen Con 2018
July 29, 2018 - How We Designed Dead Planet
July 10, 2018 - Screaming on the Alexis: Session Report [Mothership]
June 22, 2018 - Mothership PDF Now On DriveThruRPG
June 5, 2018 - Fire in Hyperspace: Session Report [Mothership]
May 15, 2018 - Escape from Banquo IV: Session Report [Mothership]
May 8, 2018 - Build a Dungeon, Level Up
May 1, 2018 - Crash Landing on Banquo IV: Session Report [Mothership]
April 23, 2018 - Can We Make This an Image? Designing Better Tables
April 17, 2018 - The Connecticut Job: Session Report [Heist]
April 8, 2018 - Mothership: Ship Creation Sheet
March 27, 2018 - Lessons I Learned Designing the Mothership Character Sheet
March 21, 2018 - The Golden Barge: Session Report [LotFP]
March 7, 2018 - Brendan’s Twenty Rules Questions
March 5, 2018 - The Hall of Sweet Mourning
March 1, 2018 - Designing Heartbreaker, My Tactical Card Game
February 26, 2018 - Urban Geomorphs for Cyberpunk Games
February 25, 2018 - Equipment As Prestige Classes
February 24, 2018 - Designing a Character Sheet for Castlevania
February 22, 2018 - Node Based Dungeon Design in Fighting Fantasy
February 21, 2018 - Simple Poison Rules for Old School Games
February 20, 2018 - My House Rules for Weapons in OD&D
February 14, 2018 - From Fighting Fantasy to Troika!
January 8, 2018 - Heist: A Smash & Grab RPG
December 21, 2017 - Isaac’s Basement
December 19, 2017 - Battletech: HPS-222 HOPSCOTCH
December 18, 2017 - Battletech: FAL-5A FALSTAFF
December 14, 2017 - What Do The Monsters Want?
December 13, 2017 - d20 Quick Cleric Religions
December 11, 2017 - Running a Siege Against the Keep on the Borderlands
December 5, 2017 - Building Better Magical Components
December 4, 2017 - My Infatuation with 2D Maps
December 1, 2017 - What Are the Guards Doing?
November 28, 2017 - How to Make Treasure Interesting
September 11, 2017 - B/X/R/X: Ape, White
September 7, 2017 - B/X/R/X: Acolyte
September 4, 2017 - B/X/R/X: Remixing the Best Monster Manual
August 22, 2017 - The First Time We Played Mothership
August 21, 2017 - Mistakes We Made at Gen Con 50
July 7, 2017 - My ENnies 2018 Judge Application
June 26, 2017 - Top 20 Twitter Bots for D&D
June 6, 2017 - Survive, Solve, or Save: Pick Two
May 19, 2017 - Removing Agency in Horror Games
April 17, 2017 - A Primer on Publishing Boardgames
March 10, 2017 - Why Buc-ee’s Made Their Bathrooms Their Core Business Offering
February 24, 2017 - Why We Tolerate Failure
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