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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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S6 – The Sea Hag
Welcome to the sixth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
Accepting YouTube Failure
I am writing this on the same day I released a new YouTube video. It was the first one I’d released in three months....
The Left Behind
While travelling I tend to have time to think. One of the things I got thinking about is what it must feel like to...
Before The Dice Drop
The tools and techniques we used before the dice dropped that contributed to a campaign's success.
The Literal Extremists
Did you know you are a psychopath? I bet you didn’t. I also bet you didn’t know that some of the life choices you’re...
Where Is The Allegory?
I watched the first episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds yesterday (as of writing this) and it got me thinking about something as...
S5 – Dastardly Duerger
Welcome to the fifth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
Losing The Signal
I’m not the biggest fan of playing tabletop role-playing games online. I have played a few online games. I’ve run parts of a campaign...
Fudging Dice Is Dysfunctional
The need to fudge the dice rolls in a ttrpg is born out of dysfunction.
D&D: A Lifestyle Brand
The D&D DIrect Livestream really showed how now, more than ever before, D&D is a lifestyle brand often only seen in other media.
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