• With the holiday mayhem over for the moment (as well as a major local SCA event), we finally got to sit down and play our ‘adventure of the week’ (more like every month or two depending on schedules) where our band of pirates set sail for plunder and strangeness. Along the way, there are a Read more

  • So my Saturday Night Gaming table has been playing D&D 5E 2024 rules (or D&D 5.24 as I’ve come to call it, in case we see a 5.26 or 5.28 later on). I took a few moments to scribble some thoughts I’ve got about this edition from play this week. Read more

  • I’m a fan of mysteries, particularly the Cozy Mysteries genre. Though not definitive of the genre, I’ve found most of them to play fair with presenting the evidence even if the final clue that brings it together is usually because of a random side remark. For me, Murder She Wrote is probably where it began Read more

  • I wasn’t familiar with author Steven Kotler before I picked up this book based on title alone (though the barcoded human on the cover did reinforce that I’d made a good choice) but apparently we swim in similar culture. Dune, Temple Grandin, and Rainer Maria Rilke aren’t just referenced, they form central plot elements in Read more

  • Time to change things up a little. Since I started doing these yearly Gamer Goals, I’ve managed to hit the mark for new games played and do pretty well for replaying older games. The problems is, my collection is pretty big already. Trying new games tends towards me buying more games while older games languish Read more

  • Currently I’m in a D&D 5.24 Dragonlance, working on getting a Blades in the Dark and a Pirate Borg – Western Marches game up and running again about once a month, a highly home brew D&D 5e game, playing in a Traveller game, and currently negotiating another game as a break from the Scum & Read more