I made a mistake. I’m still paying for it. My first foray outside trad gaming was Burning Empires, the sprawling epic space opera adaptation of The Burning Wheel that came...
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Games That Broke My Brain
The other day someone in the IGRC Slack talked about getting (back) into roleplaying recently and landing in OSR territory. But now he wanted to learn more about “storygaming.” Whatever...
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Returning To My Roots: BurningCon 2023
I recently attended BurningCon, a convention devoted to the games published by BWHQ in Queens, NY: The Burning Wheel, Burning Empires, Torchbearer, and Mouse Guard are the big ones. BWHQ...
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The Usual Suspects
Something that occurred to me just this year: having an encyclopedic knowledge of RPGs hasn’t actually made me happier. In fact it’s probably made me less happy participating in my...
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The Other End of the Telescope
What happens when you get Burning Wheel's chocolate in PbtA's peanut butter.