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 […]
Tag: Roleplaying
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 Brideā¢ 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 […]
Early Yule Gifts!
So I got a few new books in the mail over the last week, and I’m very pleased with this! Both of these were backed via Crowdfunding (sort of, anyway), and have been much anticipated titles in this household! First of all, I finally got a nifty collection of zines in the mail, all the […]