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Gateway 2019: 13th Age and Night’s Black Agents
I’ll be running 13th Age and Night’s Black Agents at Strategicon Gateway 2019, which goes from August 30 to September 2 in Los Angeles! Game sign-ups open Friday, August 10—here are my sessions: 13th...
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Where to Find me at Gen Con Online 2020
Online tabletop gaming is booming as people look for new ways to connect and socialize while weathering the global COVID-19 pandemic in lockdown. I’ve already run many roleplaying games using...
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“You play Russian Roulette this way.”
Every so often since the mid-1980s, a piece of spoken dialogue has surfaced in my thoughts: a man with a heavy Russian accent saying, “You play Russian roulette this way.” It popped into my head again...
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Where to find me at Gen Con Online 2021
It’s convention season again, and once again I’ll be attending Gen Con Online via Twitch! I don’t have any games scheduled, but you can find me on two Pelgrane Press seminars. Once again I’ll join Rob...
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Snake Plissken: Foe Stats for Lords of Creation RPG
I just listened to the Blank Check movie podcast’s episode on John Carpenter’s Escape From New York. It inspired me to stat up another NPC you might fight alongside—or face as an enemy—in Lords of...
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Today I learned that the two most famous figures in the 1950s television quiz show scandals passed away recently: Charles Van Doren in 2019 and his rival Herb Stempel in 2020. The producers fed both...
View ArticleWhich tabletop roleplaying games do 5e better than 5e?
“Quit 5e now” feels, uh, harsh? I generally think people should play the games they enjoy. However! I see a lot of people saying they want to play “D&D” but the experience they say they want to...
View ArticleM3GAN: the Modern Prometheus
I took myself out to see M3GAN last night. At the surface level it’s a fun “robot turns evil” movie, but then I noticed how much closer to Shelley’s Frankenstein it is than most. And then I thought...
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Random: How I’d Design aTwin Peaks Murder Mystery Board Game
The other day a friend said “There should be a Twin Peaks murder mystery game.” I think she meant one of those “host a murder mystery” party games, but I immediately imagined a board game. One exists,...
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Customizable floppy disk drink coasters
I got these silicone drink coasters that look like floppy disks on Amazon, and you can write on them with a Sharpie.
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