Welcome back to my 40-year retrospective as a gamer.

The new supplement for SWN is titled Proteus Sector: A Gazetteer for Stars Without Number.

I’ve always maintained that crowdfunding isn’t a pre-order store; it’s an investment in a vision and a creator. Through the long journey of Far West, I got to know Gareth. I only met him once in the ...

Welcome back to my 40 Years a Gamer retrospective. In the last post, I looked at the first game I played. But today, I want to talk about the early years of playing tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG) ...

It has been too long, but the stars have finally aligned (and we remembered the exact words this time). The Puerto Rico Role Players are officially resurrecting our beloved tradition. Geeknic 29: Back ...

Continuing my celebration of 40 years in this hobby, today I want to move from the “proto-history” I wrote about in my last post to the actual history. The meat and potatoes. The games themselves. As ...

Someone recently asked me when I started playing D&D. When I told them it was the mid-80s, their eyes lit up. “Wow! The 80s. You had the Stranger Things experience.” I stopped reflecting on it, and I ...

While browsing on itch.io I recently stumbled upon Heroes of Adventure, a free, rules-light, OSR-adjacent tabletop roleplaying game released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Like D&D it ...

Day 12 of #RPGaDay2024, continuing with the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala Wyzwania. For more information on RPG a Day, see David Chapman’s Autocratik blog post for 2024. The RPG challenge ...

Surprise! Earlier in the month, I missed two days, and I quickly remedied the situation and posted the Day 9 post two days late. And now, 19 days late, here is the post for Day 10 of RPG a Day 2025.

Last time in the series I wrote about the “Matt Mercer” effect and the misconception that every TTRPG session has to look like an episode of “Critical Role”. Today I want to share my thoughts on ...

Preamble: This post is closely tied to a post I wrote during RPG a Day this year, for day 21, Unexpected. It inspired me to dig deeper into adventures I’ve run as a GM. It may rehash some of the same ...