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I enjoy writing about games, and I really enjoy writing about games I've had deep engagement with. Most game writing consists of buzzy pieces about hot new things. Those can be fun to read, but honestly, I'm here for the deep dives when I can get them. In that spirit, I offer up my reflections … Continue reading Black Stars in a White Sky: Reflections on a Year of Playing the Yellow King RPG
What is this? This is a map-drawing game. You collectively explore the struggles of a community of monsters, trying to rebuild and heal after driving off the human occupiers. It’s a game about community, difficult choices, and decolonization. —The Deep Forest This is a review of Mark Diaz Truman & Avery Alder's The Deep Forest. … Continue reading Indie Game RPG Review: Mark Diaz Truman & Avery Alder’s The Deep Forest
I've wanted to play Davide Pignedoli's Maelstrom Dreamers for a long time. This underrated title features one-to-one play where the protagonist's real life dreams are a key component in the game's highest stakes moments. As I mentioned last week, Maelstrom Dreamers riffs on some of the implied setting for Vincent Baker's Apocalypse World without relying … Continue reading An Apocalypse for Two, Maelstrom Dreamers – Ep. 1: Village of Notor
Now that we are home schooling and I'm working on getting the taxes done, there was very little time this week for much of anything. My wise wife says, "Write about what you're doing!" So here goes... a roundup of the week in my corner on the gaming cosmos... Roll20 FTW My regular group has … Continue reading Weekly Round-up: Wicked Mazes, D&D, Champions Now, & Deep Dungeon History
My current game group is far too wonderful to let something like a global health crisis stop us from playing. But even if caution didn't dictate social distancing, we'd still be under a shelter in place order. So, online we go into the sometimes bewildering forest of apps to help us chat, roll dice, manage … Continue reading My First Online GMing, by Crom, with Simon Carryer’s On Mighty Thews
If you're an Indie Gamer, Untold: Adventures Await is what you breeze past on your way to the RPG rack when the new IPR order comes in. With its reassuring palette of blues, and its cute little Adventure Time-like creatures, it practically screams "fun for the whole family!" But you're in luck, dear Reader. I … Continue reading Untold: Adventures Await – a Review for Indie Gamers
Event Details: Black Diamond Games 1950 Market St., Concord, CA 94520 Sat., Feb. 29th @ 6:30pm What will you do to survive? Hope Inhumanity is a card-driven story game. Play ordinary people surviving the extraordinary journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. Fight off hunger, sickness, and other desperate survivors who want what you want: to find … Continue reading I’m GMing Hope Inhumanity at Black Diamond Games in Concord, CA (Sat. Feb 29th @ 6:30pm)
Event Details: Black Diamond Games 1950 Market St., Concord, CA 94520 Sat., Feb. 22nd @ 7pm I’ve been running lots of heavier games lately, so I though it would be fun to switch things up with something lighter. Also, one of the cool things about Untold is that all of the story content comes from … Continue reading I’m GMing Untold: Adventures Await @ Black Diamond Games in Concord, CA (Sat., Feb. 22 at 7pm)
Friendly warning (mature content): those of you who read my blog will probably not be troubled by such things, but the session report below describes events that play out in the overheated world of the 1970s disco scene. So, if not-particularly-graphic depictions of gay sex, irresponsible drug use, etc., are not for you, please move … Continue reading Last Days of Disco playtest: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Elvezio and Julian
My recent trip to DunDraCon was my second, but my first as a volunteer. I’d tried to schedule my session of Lady Blackbird for nighttime — mainly because that’s when I’m usually at my best as a GM. Unfortunately it ended up being slotted for 2 pm Sunday. This is just about the exact point … Continue reading Running Lady Blackbird at DunDraCon 40
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