This review is written as part of a Secret Santa type thing for my friend Anne, so if you know Anne, consider this review embargoed until I post it!
Pedantic Wasteland: Lighthouse at ...
2024-12-13 02:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't stop writing blog posts. I divided my magic spells into 5 categories: Black Magic, Blue Magic, Green Magic, Red Magic, and White Magic. Nothing groundbreaking, but as part of the process of...
2024-11-19 15:55:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I write about 8 abandoned blog posts. Some good ideas in here! Also at least 6 bad ideas:
In the sacred texts (2024-11-17 17:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
All too often, you want to buy a gift for someone who is deep, deep into this or that hobby but you aren’t yourself super well versed in it. Googling what to get a person based on that hobby is a...
2024-11-13 21:05:43 +0000 UTC View PostMy third post in 24 hours here but I promise I am very normal. Just wanted to share two things with you folks:
The first is that I'm opening up a substack in addition to my blog. If you're fa...
2024-11-11 22:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This was is much shorter than the one from last night and mostly just an introduction to me using substack.
They’re Eating the Blogs
First up, I have a substack now. This b...
2024-11-11 15:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I think I went pretty hard on this post. It describes the economic play loop of Prismatic Wasteland.
It’s the Barter Economy, Stupid
In the post-post-apocalyptic ...
2024-11-11 05:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Less than a week out from IRL election day in America, I am writing about fictional elections in games and how they are fun:
All right-thinking role-players know that Dungeons & Dr...
2024-10-30 14:34:33 +0000 UTC View Post
(alternate title: What’s Slashed is Prologue)
So you want to run a TTRPG adventure that evokes the feeling of a horror movie. The easiest aspect to add are stock characters–the ...
2024-10-28 01:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Some people want to kill a vampire, some people want to fuck a vampire, but some want to be the vampire. But what do you do when a player wants to be a vampire (or contracts vampirism...
2024-10-25 02:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostI am in the process of compiling all my notes into a single beta rules document for Prismatic Wasteland. The goal is to hopefully have a full beta game that will be ready for playtesting in 2025. I...
2024-10-24 12:56:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Another post for spooky season:
Playing as a Ghost
Oops, you died. Don’t worry about it too much, pal, these dungeons can be real death traps. Happens...
2024-10-16 21:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I tweeted a tweet, 5e folks found it and yelled at me, and it inspired a short blogpost. Another one for my backlog (going to try to only post spooky posts for the rest of the month):
Like ma...
2024-10-12 10:35:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to get a few SpoOoOoky themed posts out during the Halloween season, and this is the first in that vein, probably will post next week.
A Witch’s Best Friend
A fam...
2024-10-09 13:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This took me a while to write but I have finally written a little blurb for all of the entries in the Barkeep jam! This will go on the blog this week. Then I hope to write some spooky posts in the ...
2024-10-06 23:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostPerhaps my strangest blogpost yet?
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If you’re hardscrabble enough that you need to delve caverns full of monsters that want to kill you just for the chance to bring back a rotted c...
2024-09-12 17:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostPlaying Card Initiative
I have been playing a lot of Arcs recently (including with my colleague, Anne of the DIY & Dragons blog) but have the disease where everything I d...
2024-09-08 16:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I must be procrastinating because I keep getting hit by waves of creativity that are unrelated to anything else I'm currently working on.
This is a board game you can probably already play if...
2024-08-25 16:41:54 +0000 UTC View PostI need to finish my Barkeep Jam retrospective, so this won't go up on the blog until that does, but I wanted to get down my thoughts before they escaped.
Advantage by Default...
2024-08-25 05:12:14 +0000 UTC View Post[I realized maybe it is better to just natively post the text of a WIP blog into Patreon directly instead of sharing a google doc, but let me know if you prefer the old ways]
So many d...
2024-08-17 15:38:43 +0000 UTC View PostI wrote about the first day of GenCon immediately after the fact on my blog (https:/...
2024-08-07 00:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy Folks,
So I have been up to my eyeballs in work, travel, and planning for a new addition to my household, which has left precious little time for writing. This past month, I have mostly...
2024-07-27 13:06:49 +0000 UTC View PostI wrote about my process for creating an adventure (more specifically, a Lego adventure) in a weekend. I think the juiciest tidbit is a process I used for mapping NPC relationships and how that was...
2024-06-30 22:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
I released a new, very short, adventure for the Summer Lego RPG Setting Jame: Trouble in Paradisa:
You can get it on itch (there are plenty of community copies): 2024-06-19 20:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I realized I forgot to post a monthly update last month. Oops. Basically the update is that I've been traveling (to Savannah to officiate some friends' wedding, to Ireland for fun, to New Yawk for ...
2024-06-14 00:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostFree samples of the new blog post I'm cooking up. You'll never guess what it's about
An adventure I wrote with some friends a while back that mocked the artificial intelligence generated "Wonka" experience in Glasgow from a few months ago is finally ready for a quiet release. You g...
2024-05-14 00:26:16 +0000 UTC View PostIn which I promote the lego jam, Barkeep jam and this here patreon. Someone has to!
This one is going to get posted soon, likely tomorrow morning, for obvious timeliness reasons: 2024-05-07 23:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
First off, welcome to new patrons! For those of the Beleaguered Bouncer and Aspiring Tycoon tiers, I have put a posting containing various PDFs (literally hundreds of pages) o...
2024-05-03 12:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post