So My Lovely Bride™ Ten and I are celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary this year, and we decided to do something really special. We are taking three, two week vacations this year, the first coincided with our anniversary last April, the last is our usual Halloween break, and we just completed our vacation around the […]
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The race to replace 5e
So “Dungeons & Dragons”, as we currently know it, is in its waning days. In September, the Players Handbook, the first of the three core rulebooks for the 2024 edition of D&D, will be released. Yes, I know “Wizards of the Coast” insists this is just an update to the current 5th edition rules from […]
Console Supremacy
So this is going to be a bit of a controversial take, but the PC Master Race is dead. Long Live the Console Peasants! Here’s the thing: I have been a longtime member of the PC “Master Race” for decades, as I used to build my own gaming rigs, bought some premade gaming laptops, and […]
Looking for Group
So here’s the situation: My last bout of COVID caused significant damage to my vocal chords, which has forced me to make the hard decision to retire my solo Actual-Play podcast, “The Worst Actual-Play Podcast Ever!”. I have it completed through the end of 2024, but had planned to do one more season in 2025. […]
So you say you won’t be playing the new version of D&D…
It’s been well over a year since the “OGL Debacle” happened at Wizards of the Coast, that seriously hurt the “Dungeons & Dragons” brand, and led to the announcement of multiple major TTRPG projects, set to capitalize on D&D’s potential downfall. While there are literally hundreds of new TTRPGs released every year, three in particular […]
Roleplaying on the Road
So My Lovely Bride™ and I will be taking a series of road trips this year, to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We will be spending many long hours driving through a variety of locales in the western United States, and while our primary activity will be sight-seeing, there will be times when I expect […]