Category: Geek Culture

  • Apotheosis Studios: The Culmination of Unprofessionalism

    (Brent here! There are ongoing updates with links to the accounts from other folks coming forward at the end of the article.) If you are in the TTRPG community on Twitter today, chances are good you have already seen some of the threads talking about the deplorable conduct of Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone, co-leads…

  • Planning for my Extra Life

    I teased some of my goals and plans for Extra Life 2022 in a previous post. Since I have done a bunch of free-range scribbling in my planning notebook, let’s take a slightly more detailed look at what I’m thinking for this year. This post (which was originally a thread on Twitter) will help me…

  • Catching my Extra Life

    Catching my Extra Life

    Ten years ago I decided to take part in my first Extra Life. I didn’t consider it a huge step at the time. I had taken part in local fundraisers for various children’s charities, I figured doing something with games to help sick kids was a natural fit. That first year was a bit rough;…

  • Monday the 16th at The Rat Hole

    Hello! All the excitement is over at The Rat Hole today, as I write a little bit about ways to use existing verse and poems in your game. Check it out there and let me know what you think!

  • Blowing Up

    Up to now, my experience on Twitter has been pretty quiet. I only just this year hit 2000 followers, a number that a year ago seemed ridiculous. I enjoyed being a very small fish. I cultivated my follow list so I was generally always seeing tweets from the folks I was most interested in: indie…

  • Tuesday at The Rat Hole

    It’s a rare Tuesday at The Rat Hole! That’s because my interview with the cast of Queen’s Court Games’ Kult: Divinity Lost mini-series was so jam packed with fun stuff, we had to break it in two parts. And Part Two is now live! You should definitely read Part One first, though, so you don’t…

  • Monday at The Rat Hole

    This Monday at The Rat Hole features Part One of my interview with the cast of Queen’s Court Games’ Kult: Divinity Lost series, His Last Hope. This is a great horror series in three parts and I was lucky enough to get some of the cast’s time to ask questions for your entertainment. Check it…

  • Monday at The Rat Hole

    It’s Monday, and that means a new post over at The Rat Hole! This week I interviewed Rue, the organizer behind the fabulous TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas, doing gangbusters! You can read the interview here. If you have a suggestion for someone from the Indie TTRPG community I could interview next, please let me…

  • More TTRPG Giving Back

    Last week I wrote a quick post highlighting three Itch charity bundles you should get your hands on. Here’s a quick update on those three, then we’ll look at two new ones you should grab. Solo But Not Alone 2 is in its last 12 HOURS and is at 89% of its goal! I believe…

  • TTRPGs Giving Back

    The tabletop gaming community is filled with smart, funny, imaginative people who enjoy sharing stories and laughter with their friends and quite often with complete strangers. I think that last part is one of the things I love most about this hobby. That I can sit at a table of folks I don’t know and…