Overviews, explanations, and opinions about games I haven’t actually played yet. If you read the blog a while you’ll understand my biases.
A lot of games pass through my doors every year. I think this is everything that arrived in 2024! And a peek at what I’m expecting to arrive in 2025 at the end. What a time to be alive and loving tabletop roleplaying. This is a very long list! Settle in with some eggnog or… Continue reading 2024 Roundup
English folklore, westerns, Arthuriana, fallen far futures…and time travel! That’s it, those are all my favorite genres and I got to play them all at RinCon, Arizona’s best local convention, late in November. I’ve been reviewing everything I ran, and Publishing Goblin’s Zoetrope: Death Didn’t Take is the last one on the list. Zoetrope: Death… Continue reading Zoetrope: A Very Silly Deep Dive
Second of three reviews from the latest convention I’ve got a fraught relationship with Westerns. Specifically, it’s hard to keep the Western genre in my head separate from the history of the American West. It’s a long-standing thing going back to when I worked professionally in game design. It’s evolved into both “this is gross… Continue reading Inevitable: The Deep Dive
Per usual, I overprepared stuff for RinCon this year. I set myself up to run six things! But what I did get to play all turned out terrific for different reasons. I’ll talk about one each week. Let’s get into it. First up is Through the Hedgerow by Jonathan Rowe, out of Osprey Publishing. Through the Hedgerow… Continue reading Through the Hedgerow: a Deep Dive
Readers may remember our terrific run with Handiwork Games’ a|state earlier this year. Just a great, smart game all around. Designer Morgan Davie took an old Forge-era indie fave and reframed it with Forged in the Dark tech, then went on to add several sharp quality of life improvements to the FitD framework as well.… Continue reading FiveEvil: An Unlikely Winner
