Category: Geek Culture

  • May Subscribathon Deal!

    Every month my goal is to get just one person a day to subscribe to The Hearth Magazine and support our amazing writers and artists. Right now we’re at 6 out of 31, a bit behind but I think we can catch that up! To help that along we’ve got a May deal: Buy a year’s subscription (currently Issues #2-7), you’ll…

  • It’s Been a While

    I’ve been so busy the last several months, I only just realized I sort of left you hanging with my last post. So to catch you up…The Hearth Magazine launched! It launched later than I wanted, but back-to-back norovirus and flu will slow anyone down, so I can’t really feel too bad. Anyway, you can…

  • Wherefore Magazine?

    A few weeks ago I sort of bullied myself into launching a TTRPG magazine in 2025. In fairness it’s something I’ve had on my mind for years, but it wasn’t until that ill-fated social media post that things sort of gelled around the idea, and it shifted from something I could do to something I…

  • Gen Gone, Part Two

    This is Part Two, you can get the context over in Part One. Much like in Part One, I’m going to start with a couple of points that, if they make you mad (because you disagree, not because you should rightfully be mad at our capitalist trash fire), the rest of this and probably Part…

  • 2024 Challenge

    Less than three weeks into a new year and already I need to call in my fellow cis white mascs for an educational huddle. I swear, y’all must have made being a clownshoe a resolution or something. Here’s my 2024 Challenge to you all: Make 2024 the year you stop shitting on someone’s joy like…

  • Brent’s 2023 Wrap-up

    I generally pull together a list of everything I’ve done in a year. It helps me when I need to update biographies for this and that, and it’s easy to forget things and let them slip through the cracks. I honestly didn’t expect this year’s list to add up to much, though. It seems like…

  • Supporting Palestine

    You might remember my friend Jes from our interview back in July, when they were releasing their excellent Uncaging Nicolas on Itch. One of the things we touched on in that interview was Jes’ commitment to supporting charity through tabletop gaming on their channel. So it comes as no surprise, with the atrocities committed against…

  • Down The Rat Hole

    This week at The Rat Hole, I interview Argentinian TTRPG designer Tomas Gimenez Rioja about his new liminal horror storytelling game, What Is It That Lies Beyond The Immenseness of the Dark?. We also talked about TTRPGs in the Global South and a few other things. It’s a good read, go check it out!

  • Interlude: Pre-Rolling

    Back when I ran a whole lot of Pathfinder on a regular basis, I got in the habit of pre-rolling a bunch of d20 rolls. Before a session I would roll the d20 a bunch of times, say twenty or thirty, and record those numbers in order. Then when I needed a roll for an…

  • Let’s Stat at the Beginning, Part 2

    Sometimes you plan to come back to something right away, only for life to decide, “Haha! Nope!” Sorry to be away so long folks, but I am back! If you are just joining us (welcome!) I am posting some ideas around a developmental edit of D&D 5e, as if I had been engaged to give…