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My Only New Year’s Resolution

I don’t normally make new year’s resolutions. But when Prismatic Wasteland issued their challenge to bloggers to create a new resolution mechanic, how could I say no? We love a good resolution system around here, but I hope you’ll accept this instead. The Any Two System – When the GM gives you the difficulty number…

January 4, 2024
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…

December 28, 2023
Updating the Ko-Fi Shop

Every once in a while I go over old creations and see if there’s room for improvement. I don’t have a set schedule for this, it usually happens when some other thing I’m doing reminds me they exist. This week I used swarms of bees and the Hedgicorn I created in a charity game I…

November 15, 2023
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…

November 13, 2023
Wandering to NJ Web Fest

May of 2022 I had a Twitter conversation with two friends that changed my life. I didn’t realize it at the time. Life changing moments masquerade as totally normal moments, only revealing themselves when you look back at when it all went so right/wrong. In the moment Anne and I were wishing Krissy a happy…

August 15, 2023
Summing Up: Writing a Campaign Synopsis

This past Sunday I wrote a thread on Twitter I thought might be worth posting in a clearer format here. We’re putting out the casting call soon for [REDACTED] so I needed to pull together the campaign synopsis, which is one of my favourite exercises for a new campaign. They are an absolute necessity for…

August 2, 2023
At The Rat Hole

Another week, another interview over at The Rat Hole! This week I had the distinct pleasure of talking with Cassi Mothwin, a brilliant designer of TTRPGs ranging from the cozy to the horrific. Her latest solo TTRPG, Carved by the Garden, launched on Kickstarter tomorrow. We took an hour to talk about the TTRPG space,…

July 17, 2023
Questions to the Editor: Editorial Assessments

( This was originally a thread I posted on Twitter, but I copied it here in case that was easier for folks to read. I also didn’t want this to disappear into that Great Algorithm in the Sky. Enjoy!) Let’s talk about the editorial assessment. For me it serves a few purposes: 1) it gets…

June 21, 2023
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!

June 6, 2023
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…

May 3, 2023