Category: Gaming

  • RPGaDay: Catching Up to the Ides

    Yep, definitely a little behind on these. Let’s catch up, shall we? How has a game surprised you? This is tough to narrow down, because I read a lot of games and I’m constantly finding little surprises, good and bad. Star Trek Adventures, for instance, surprised me with how intuitively their game mechanics support the…

  • RPGaDay Catch-up: The Inevitable Sequel

    I offer no excuses for getting behind on these, except that I am on holidays for the first time in a while and I have enjoyed catching up on my reading. If you can block out a day or two where you can just read, with breaks to eat and sleep, I highly recommend it.…

  • Big News and RPGaDay Catch-up

    It’s almost become tradition at this point, I have to make a catch-up post for RPGaDay. Surprising no one. But first, some exciting news! The ENnie Awards were Friday night, and they announced the judges for 2019. I made it! I honestly thought it was a long shot, so thanks to everyone who voted for…

  • What Do You Look For in an RPG? (RPGaDay2018)

    I am endlessly intrigued and fascinated by the variety of roleplaying games currently on the market, as well as all the systems that came before. So on the one hand I don’t really look for anything in an RPG, I just take them as they come and try to embrace what is unique about that…

  • What Do You Love About RPGs? (RPGaDay2018)

    I’m taking part in RPGaDay 2018, so get ready for a plethora of posts all month long! I’ve talked in other posts about the many reasons I love RPGs. I mean, one rarely takes part in a hobby for thirty-nine years unless they really love it (and if you’ve been doing it that long and…

  • ENies Voting Starts Today

    Today voting opens for the 2018 ENnies, awards given to designers and companies in the TTRPG industry to celebrate the work they’ve done in the past year. You can see the entire list of nominees  and then cast your votes if you are so inclined. And I’m hoping you are, because for the very first…

  • RG House Rules: Dump Everything but Stats!

    Today’s post is actually a supplement to my weekly post over at The Rat Hole. If you check out over there, I talked about a possible house rule to deal with what I consider useless Ability Scores in D&D 5e. Here I’m going to talk about a second way of making ability scores useful again.…

  • Catching Up for Spring

    I’ll tell you, seasonally activated depression is a hell of a thing. I had it mostly under control this year, and felt better on a day-to-day basis than I have in years. But the winter draaaaaaaged on this year (we just lost snow last week) and the extra month of SAD kicked my ass a…

  • April TTRPG Maker Challenge – Even More Catch-up!

    Hard on the heals of my previous catch-up post, another catch-up post! Folks, I’m really good at this whole blogging thing, let me tell ya! 8 – Describe Your Routine When I freelanced full-time, I kept a pretty tight routine. I’m an early riser, so I would get up at 5:30am, have breakfast and clean…

  • April TTRPG Challenge: Catch-up Edition

    As has become tradition with these daily post challenges, I had several days where I wasn’t able to get a post up. And so here we are with a catch-up post! Yay! That said, I’ll be better about getting regular posts up. Also, if you haven’t been following the hashtag on Twitter, I highly recommend…