• E3: It’s Always Trade-Offs

    Episode Synopsis Paul and Dusey ask and answer: is player agency always sacrosanct? Should every new roleplayer start in a dungeon? Did Tolkien know how to name women and did...

  • Magisterial Games

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...