• 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...

  • Worldbuilding and Built Worlds

    Part 4 of ? in the Cultivating a Storytelling Mindset series My home group has been playing UFO Press‘ Shattered City the past several months. It’s a setting-intensive game where...

  • Deep Dive: Impulse Drive

    Last week I talked about how I’ve finally jumped into the deep end of the online roleplaying pool. The game we’re playing is Adrian Thoen’s Impulse Drive, a Powered by...

  • A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2016

    Howdy everyone! How’s your isolation going? Today was the first day of having my daughter home, figuring out some homeschooling/unschooling strategies for the upcoming weeks. We’re taking a break, so...

  • Certain Values of Fun

    My current Godbound game has gotten me thinking about games that have taken measures to ensure they’re fun to facilitate. I mean…running games is its own reward, of course. I...