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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 Comfort Crisis
One of the five books I read over the seven days of my cruise was The Comfort Crisis. I wasn’t sure about it. I...
Choose Empathy
Whenever I get a break from my normal routine I find I get through a lot of books. On a recent break, I found...
Not My Wizard!
If there is one class in Dungeons & Dragons I continue to flirt with playing it is a Wizard. In all cases, when ‘I...
Back To Cruising
If you’re reading this within a week of release I’m currently on a cruise ship and hopefully enjoying the Norwegian Fjords. I say hopefully...
Twelve Things About Me
We played Blades in the Dark. Three days. None sessions. A whole campaign. It was fantastic.
S7 – The Black Cabin
Welcome to the seventh set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
Sayonara Critical Role
I sense a journey I’ve been on since the second half of 2015 is coming to an end. That journey is being someone who...
Done With Fandom Discourse
I woke up at somewhere between five and six in the morning, which is something that seems to be happening these days. I’m hoping...
After The Dice Drop
The tools, techniques and key moments after the dice dropped that contributed to a campaign's success.
Playing Blades in the Dark
We played Blades in the Dark. Three days. Nine sessions. It was awesome. My thoughts on the experience.
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