A Gnome's Ponderings

2023 was a year of changes for us. Moving across the country, me starting a new job, our son starting in a new school.  What it wasn’t was a...

Almost immediately after I finished rereading The Heroes of Olympus series, I read the Chalice of the Gods, the first in a new Percy Jackson...

The  Xipéhuz  by JH Rosny is a novella from 1888 that may be the first example of the starfish alien, beings completely unrelatable for huma...

With Titans of Dsyx, I have now played every game in the Legends of Dsyx series.  And, while I didn’t save the best for last, it was a prett...

  Apropos of Movies is a game I hadn’t heard of until I saw it on PnP Arcade’s Black Friday sale. Which is slightly surprising because I ten...

  I originally read Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series as it came out. At the time, it struck me as the strongest young adult writing h...

When I was recently looking at Micro Rome, I found out that it had gotten published some time in 2023. While the end goal of a lot of PnP ga...