My friends over at the Titterpigs podcast did a recent episode on “played vs unplayed reviews”, and in a sort of interesting synchronicity, the Modern Mythos podcast just released an episode on actual plays. It’s interesting because I see all three types of content as being on the same scale of “game prep”. Let me […]
Every wondered how to play Delta Green without playing as one of those “problematic” US Law Enforcement agencies? Here is some advice for you! #TTRPG #DeltaGreen
Travis Miller wrote this interesting article on his Grumpy Wizard blog about “genre emulation” in TTRPGs. He basically argues that games don’t “emulate” a genre as much as they are part of that genre: To “emulate” is to imitate, simulate, or copy a thing without being the thing itself. If you are running a game […]
My team at Epic Games is looking for a software engineer! We are the Cinematics team inside the Unreal Engine team, and we develop, among other things, the Sequencer tool.
I didn’t really expect to be interested in this book. “Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground”, by Stu Horvath (of the Vintage RPG podcast, among other things), is a book that looks at the history of tabletop roleplaying games “from D&D to Mothership”, as it says on the cover. It’s not that I’m uninterested […]
Our old vacuum cleaner died. We got a new one that’s better for our hardwood floors, and it comes with a fancy laser that lets you see what you’re picking up. It was a mistake. I mean, it works exactly as advertised, and you can indeed clearly see where you’ve already vacuumed, and where you […]
It’s always fun to catch up with online TTRPG discussions because every week or so there’s a hot debate taking my feed by storm. Most of the time I don’t know where it comes from, but this week’s was on topic for which I already had an old post draft, so I figured I would […]
This weekend at the park we saw a bunch of hawks for some reason (not common). Not sure what they are but I’m leaning towards juvenile Swaison’s Hawks?
Interesting (and not always correct) list of upsides/downsides of IRC vs Discord, from a Lobsters administrator. I learned about “Mystery Meat Navigation” from this list…
“The return of piracy”: a good look at the terrible state of legal offerings for books and TV/movies. Remember: the only reason we’ve had decent legal music services was because of the sheer pressure of piracy in the early 2000s. Let’s bring that back.