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 […]
Tag: Roleplaying
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 […]
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 […]
Five things I hate about… Renaissance Faires
This one is going to hurt. I am a huge fan of RenFaires, ever since My Lovely Bride™ and I attended our first such event back in 2010. While we haven’t been to a Faire since 2019 (for obvious reasons), short of a new variant springing up, we have every intention of going to a […]
Five Years Gone – Loot Mechanics #252
A fun look back at the last five years of this show, from our days as “Pixels & Dice”, through our run (thus far) as “Loot Mechanics”. Intro (0:50) – A few words from Scormus Main Topic (3:57) – 2017: A Gamer Confessional (with Ryleia!) Other Bullshit (27:32) – 2018: Our first impressions of D&D […]