Monday, January 12, 2026

Sometimes, James Ernst’s throwaway ideas should be thrown away

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  I try and pay attention to whatever James Ernst is up to but I managed to miss his abstract game The Fractured Flat for a couple years. Sa...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Chesterton is full of cynicism and hope

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  I recently reread Tremendous Trifles, a collection of essays by Gilbert K. Chesterton from the early part of the last century. And when I ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

My December Gaming

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  December ended up being a busy month for me in non-gaming ways. Apart from some play testing (thanks again, Butron Shy!), I didn’t really ...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

My December PnP

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On the one hand, I got a decent amount of PnP crafting done in December. On the other hand, I didn’t end up using as much of it as I hoped t...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The required look back at 2025

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  As is pretty much always the case, 2025 had positives and negatives for me as far as gaming experiences go. I think that’s pretty much jus...
Monday, December 29, 2025

The Judas Contract disturbed me. Which was almost assuredly the point

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  I recently read The New Teen Titans - The Judas Contract for the first time. I went in knowing that it was a very important story in the r...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Games don’t have to be good to be educational

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  When I looked at Orphan Source Detected!, it reminded me of the kind of Print and Plays I saw when I first started looking at PnPa back in...