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Strategicon, 30 Years Later
I took this photo of the open gaming hall at Strategicon‘s Gateway convention in 1987, when I was 20 years old. A friend and I went there on a road trip from my home town of Las Vegas. During that...
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Register for SECRET OF WARLOCK MOUNTAIN at Big Bad Con
I’m running two sessions of my Hillfolk/DramaSystem series pitch The Secret of Warlock Mountain at Big Bad Con in October! My games are scheduled in the Teen area, so all you cool teens have first shot...
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RPGs I’m running at Gamex 2018
I’m honored to be a special guest at Gamex 2018, taking place over Memorial Day Weekend (May 25-28) in Los Angeles. When I’m not running tabletop RPGs, I’ll be at the Pelgrane Press table in the...
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Gen Con 2018: Where to find me!
It’s that time of year again: tens of thousands of tabletop game enthusiasts are descending upon Indianapolis for Gen Con! If you stop by Pelgrane Press booth #1317 (our neighbors are Green Ronin,...
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OrcaCon 2019: Join Me for DramaSystem, Night’s Black Agents, and Fall of...
I’ll be running Pelgrane Press roleplaying games at OrcaCon 2019 in Bellevue, WA January 11-13. There are still seats open at my sessions — if any of these strike your fancy, sign up to play. Friday...
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Free RPG: Lunch Hour Dungeon
Lunch Hour Dungeon is a simple tabletop roleplaying game I designed to run during lunchtime at work, where my players might include both experienced gamers and people totally unfamiliar with RPGs....
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T-800 Terminator: Foe Stats for Lords of Creation RPG
I recently ran Lords of Creation, an Avalon Hill tabletop roleplaying game from 1984, for my gaming group. The climax of the adventure’s first act was the opening of a wormhole that connected our...
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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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