Magic has become boring.

A setting book is a coffin. It arrives glossy and heavy, three hundred pages packed with royal lineages, racialized taxonomies, ancient history, and satel...

I try to follow this procedure when possible. Sometimes I’m not in the best headspace and I fail. Sometimes it really helps. You want to buy an RPG book Ge...

Why? Because you wish you blogged more and you like citing yourself. Where? Your blog, or wherever else you want. I'm not picky. When? Whenever someone asks a question in a Discord server and you have...

To grow as a creative, find a scene. Or make one. Brian Eno calls this collective intelligence scenius, because we're better together

Sometimes I kvetch about how boring I find fantasy pantheons that are just Greek gods with a bad coat of paint. Sometimes I've blogged abou...

On making positive claims and contributions.

ALT: Dune Sting

It’s a tricky thing, justice. Best method I’ve found is making sure everyone feels both ends of the stick at some point in their life, just ...

A blog about table-top role-playing games after a break of two decades.

Nobody has ever told the Oracle of Delphi that she should do a second prophecy for them. When you draw a couple Tarot cards, you don’t redraw them. When you do bibliomancy, you note down what…

You can quit playing your pretend games wholesale and go back to living an undisturbed life not worrying about what a lyric game is or wheth...

I got into the hobby late compared to most folks, no dad that grew up in the advent of the hobby or brother to let me play at his table jealously. Tabletop g...

There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...