- Sweet & spicy honey chicken sriracha roleplaying: The importance of positive definitions argues that we should give positive definitions of what we like in roleplaying, rather than negative ones that try to define what we do not like. https://zornhau.substack.com/p/sweet-and-spicy-honey-chicken-sriracha
- Rant: My problem with flexible magic systems by Mailanka argues why freeform magic systems do not lead to creativity, unlikely less flexible ones, but with nuance to the argument. https://mailanka.blogspot.com/2019/04/rant-my-problem-with-flexible-magic.html
- Posting signs (What isn’t a role-playing game, part 3) outlines different, mostly surface-level, categorizing features to divide roleplaying games into genres (of design, not fiction). https://zornhau.substack.com/p/posting-signs-what-isnt-a-role-playing
- What is the new school revolution? Part 1. by Pandatheist gives a definition of weird games as a part of defining new school revolution (NSR). https://newschoolrevolution.com/2020/01/19/what-is-the-nsr-part-1
- Revisiting the NSR by Pandatheist reflects on their text on NSR. https://boneboxchant.wordpress.com/2022/05/04/revisiting-the-nsr/
- Capability-based characters by Sandra Snan argues that if a game defines characters in terms of what they can do (as opposed to their hang-ups or issues), it should be blorby, otherwise it is shadow-boxing. https://idiomdrottning.org/capability-based-characters