As many of you already know, I’m a bit of an amateur game designer for tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). I’ve created quite a few games over the years, but only self-published one, back in the long-ago days before Amazon and DriveThruRPG. It didn’t do very well. Regardless, this is a bit of a passion of…
I have found myself at a bit of an impasse, you might say. No one reads blogs anymore (the irony of this post has not escaped me), and listenership on our podcasts is steadily dropping. Social media and video content is King, leaving websites like this struggling to survive. After literal decades of content creation…
So I’ve been trying out the Closed Beta for “Palia“, the upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game from Singularity 6, and I thought I’d give you my initial thoughts so far. First of all, the game is pretty much exactly what I thought we’d get from this so-called ‘Cozy MMO’. “Palia” is very pretty, despite…
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…
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 Bride™ 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…
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…
