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Star Trek: End of an Era
The purchase of Paramount by Skydance Media, or by a tech mogul’s nepo baby, depending on your point of view, might mean Star Trek ends its current ‘era’ of production. I’m going to go...
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Werewolf Road Trip: Episode Three
We have a history with third sessions. Not sure how it came about, but for whatever reason, the gaming group that was, via numerous choices and signals across the table, often landed third sessions...
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Werewolf Road Trip: Episode Two
Here is a question for you: can good things come out of confusion? I’m a fan of avoiding confusion. Ensure the game’s texture is understood. Clarify the purpose of scenes if things are a...
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You Don’t Need to Act!
At its core, this article argues that acting isn’t really what the tabletop role-playing experience is about. It can...
Werewolf Road Trip: Episode One
What happens when two friends who used to belong to a long-term, now broken-up gaming group start having similar...
Has role-playing become routine?
The human brain is a strange and wondrous thing. It can shift things to the foreground and background, deciding...
Games Master As A Practice
When the question ‘What is the best way to describe running a role-playing game?’ cycles around on social media,...
The Acolyte and End Stage Star Wars
I never though I'd see Star Wars as creatively bankrupt as Rise of Skywalker and then along came The...
Dragons, College Sex and Violence
Fourth Wing, the best selling young adult novel of military college, dragon riders, action and romance.
25th Century Trek
The brutal honesty regarding Star Trek: Picard season three is I didn’t need it to exist. I enjoyed season...
The Last of Us
This week I finished watching HBO’s The Last of Us. I have little doubt that it’s going to be...
Exalted: Let’s Fabula Ultima-ise
Do you know the secret about the Fantasy Avengers idea? When I considered running something last time, it was the idea...
Exalted: One’s Fate. Forever And All Time
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: Traits And The Great Curse
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: A Discussion On Rules
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Encounters with AI
We’re all dealing with encounters with AI these days; even if you’re actively trying to avoid it, you’re going to be subjected to it one way or another....
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Bolstering The Finances
I can’t be the only one who reacted in a certain way after the What The Actual Fuck mini-budget? Within 24-48 hours I started...
Bourne-tastic Vampire Thriller
We recently came back from CottageCon, our weekend of gaming. It was a unique experience in that this was a CottageCon with the smallest...
Fourteen Days at Sea
Last weekend I got off the cruise ship Iona, having spent 14-days on a cruise down to the Canary Islands and back. This is...
The Challenges of Online Play
Since the death of the gaming group, my pattern of actual play is changing. It’s switched from regular, long-form play to two alternate methods....
What The Actual Fuck!
This week has been a hard week. I’m not talking officially depressed hard, but it’s been challenging. I was ill at the start of...
Andor: The Reckoning
I’ve watched the first three episodes of Andor that have been released on Disney+ and they are a glorious thing. The first season is...
Gaming Group: RIP
After 2-3 years of the pandemic everyone’s lives have changed as everyone had plenty of time to re-evaluate their lives and make changes. A...
Playing The One Ring
I recently got to play The One Ring a game designed to give you the Tolkien experience. I’m not a big fan of setting-heavy...
S9 – The Gnoll Horde
Welcome to the ninth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
Critical Role is Scripted?
And here we are again with people insisting Critical Role is scripted. This says less about Critical Role and more about the style and...
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