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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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The Religion of Fandoms
The discussions around Rings of Power. Where do I even start? Let’s face it, it’s not about Rings of Power specifically, it’s just the...
A Star Trek Moment
As you read this the conservative leadership election is complete and the winner is announced tomorrow. This is after five weeks that felt like...
Forged Powered in the Dark Apocalypse
Where we are inspired to write about some of the difference between two great fiction first systems
Great Narrative Tropes
I’m doing my usual thing and considering what I may run next as part of my tabletop role-playing endeavours. As usual, I’m taking what...
The Nature of World Building
One of the things I find myself saying occasionally on #ttrpg Twitter is we don’t do world-building. People are often shocked by this. Some...
Aliens Among Us
In the early hours of June 24th 2016, my life changed. I was going to say significantly, but I’m not sure that is an...
A Cruise in 2022
I went on a cruise at the tail end of June which also happened to be the first time I’d left the shores of...
S8 – Revel’s End
Welcome to the eighth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
The Importance of a Meaningful Why
The importance of why in tabletop role-playing game stories for meaning, emotion and fateful conversations.
MCU’s Lack of Focus
I’m a big fan of Thor: Ragnarok, despite this I chose not to bother watching Love and Thunder at the cinema. There are numerous...
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