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The Mostly La Quinta Roadshow Tour

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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New Year, New Ship [SPOILERS]

Okay, so I’ve been playing “Starfield” since early September, when it officially launched on Xbox Game Pass. In that time, I have made multiple characters, as well as dozens upon dozens of different ships, because I find the ship building minigame to be among the most satisfying aspects of the game. Of course, if you […]

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The Truth about D&D

I’ll make this short and sweet: “Dungeons & Dragons” is the greatest roleplaying game on the market. They won. It’s over, and the competition never really had a chance. That’s it. As much as I love independent roleplaying games, and want to see them succeed, it should be obvious to everyone now that there really […]