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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 thoughts about the quality of...
Ian O'Rourke
7 min read

Has role-playing become routine?

The human brain is a strange and wondrous thing. It can shift things to the foreground and background, deciding that some things are background...
Ian O'Rourke
6 min read

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, I answer that I view...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

Binging Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

I binged Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and it was a glorious experience.
Ian O'Rourke
7 min read

How Do You Role-Play?

Everyone approaches role-playing differently - so here is a way too consider what you actually focus on.
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

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 Acolyte.
Ian O'Rourke
9 min read

Dragons, College Sex and Violence

Fourth Wing, the best selling young adult novel of military college, dragon riders, action and romance.
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

The Storytelling Spectrum

The storytelling spectrum and big 'S' and little 's' storytelling in role-playing games.
Ian O'Rourke
9 min read

Baldurs Gate 3: The best D&D campaign

Is it possible for a Baldur's Gate 3 to be your best Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game campaign?
Ian O'Rourke
7 min read

25th Century Trek

The brutal honesty regarding Star Trek: Picard season three is I didn’t need it to exist. I enjoyed season one overall. Season two was...
Ian O'Rourke
8 min read