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Well, that didn’t take long

So much for going back to playing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games again. After a couple of weeks of delving back into the MMORPG scene, while taking a break from playing solo tabletop roleplaying games, I realized something rather profound: TTRPGs are just superior to MMORPGs. They simply are. Now I know, this is probably […]

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Too Good To Be True

So the Oregon Renaissance Faire has been cancelled for 2021. I should have known this would happen, to be honest. Despite a good portion of the population having been vaccinated against COVID-19, including My Lovely Brideā„¢ and I, it simply hasn’t been enough. The virus keeps springing back up, hospitalizations are on the rise, and […]

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So, now what, LOTR-fans?

If you have been living under a rock, as I mostly am, Amazon cancelled their planned “Lord of the Rings”-based MMORPG, after they had difficulty renegotiating contracts with Tencent. Well, that sucks. But it also raises a lot of questions for LOTR-fans, who were eagerly awaiting this title. First off, where do we go from […]

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Break out your wallets, TTRPG fans!

Okay, Tabletop Roleplaying fans: Have you backed “Ironsworn: Starforged” on Kickstarter? If not, why haven’t you? I’m sure you already know that I’m a huge proponent of many tabletop roleplaying projects on Kickstarter, and while I may have missed some pretty big ones along the way, I was especially diligent not to miss this one, […]

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Resolved, and yet not resolved

So I finally found a reasonably-priced copy of “Shadowrun” 2nd edition, to replace my original copy, that is effectively worn out. I have found some copies previously, but they ranged as high as $900, and that is simply unacceptable! I love SR 2nd edition, but I don’t love it that much. Anyway, Noble Knight Games […]