So, I just bought an XBox Series X gaming console. This is the first XBox I have ever owned, previously being a Playstation then Nintendo fan, and the first “Current Generation” console I have had since the Playstation 2. Basically, I left consoles behind for a couple of decades, in favor of PC gaming, before […]
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For lack of a TTRPG
I am currently sitting in a beautiful, one-room cabin up on top of the Blue Mountains in northeast Oregon. This is a favorite vacation location for My Lovely Brideā¢ and I, as it is roughly thirty miles from any sort of fireworks displays for Independence Day. My dogs don’t “do” fireworks, you see. But that’s […]
I have enough TTRPGs, anyway
So, as longtime readers of this site will already know, I own a lot of tabletop roleplaying games. That’s actually a bit of an understatement, to be honest, since I know a lot of people might consider owning 20-odd different TTRPGs as a sizable collection. Normally, I would agree with that assessment, except that mine […]
I have an idea. You might even call it a “cunning plan”.
So, as you may know, I’ve been thinking about changing things up a tad, where it comes to this website, and the content presented herein. Specifically, once I finish recording the last season of “The Worst Actual-Play Podcast Ever!” (WAPPE) later this year (don’t worry, that turd will be running through 2025), I want to […]
What Comes Next
As many of you know, I have been involved with an Actual-Play podcast – in one form or another – for several years. Beginning with when my brother Beoulus talked me into game-mastering and managing “Knights of the Tabletop” with our longtime gaming group back in 2019, which then lead into my doing a solo […]
A Postmortem: How NOT to run a crowdfunded project
I spoke about my experiences with the crowdfunding for “Perilous Roleplaying Game” by Jordan Palmer previously, both back in January, and again earlier this month. Neither of these articles painted a very positive view of the project, or of its creator Jordan, but both were accurate and specific to the problems that have plagued “Perilous” […]