40 Years a Gamer: A Decade of Community (2007 to 2017 – Part 2)
Welcome back to Part 2. In the previous post, I focused on how my life as a gamer blossomed over this decade, expanding from…
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A Shoutout to Highmoon: The Spark Behind Puerto Rico Role Players
As I’ve been looking back at my last 40 years in the tabletop hobby, especially the transition from playing at home to getting involved…
40 Years a Gamer: A Decade of Community (2007 to 2017 Part 1)
By 2007, I had been playing at Sammy’s house for about two years. We were deep into my second D&D 3.5 run, having just…
RPG a Day 2025 Day 31: Reward
So, we come to the end of RPG a Day 2025. Allow me to get a little sentimental. I’ve been participating in RPG a…
#RPGaDay2024, Day 31 – Gamer I miss…
Sammy: A First-Line Friend I have reached a certain age where the death of friends, acquaintances, and even loved ones is not necessarily unexpected.…
The Lost Ultima Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Even before I knew what pen & paper roleplaying games were, I was a fan of computer RPGs. Among the first titles I ever…
#RPGaDay2017 Day 31: The future’s so bright, I’ve gotta wear shades!
Day 31 of #RPGaDay2017. And so, another year of RPG a Day comes to an end. This has been a particularly good one for…
There will be an Expanse RPG
A while ago, I was wondering why there was no roleplaying game based on Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham’s The Expanse book series which…
The New Alternity Game: An Interview with Richard Baker
I’ve talked about Alternity here in the blog before. Both Stargazer and myself are fans, and have posted about it numerous times. We even…
Sunglar’s Savage House Rules!
I first became interested in Savage Worlds when I read a reference to it in a message board. Can’t remember which one now, but…
RPG a Day 2016: “Shall play a game?”- Day 19
Friday at last! What a week… If you’ve been following my #RPGaDay 2016 posts you’ll notice my posting times have been all over the…
RPG a Day 2016, Triple Threat! Days 1, 2 & 3
Like a phoenix from the ashes, or a hungover party goer on Monday morning, I arise once more, after months of not posting here…
Gen Con’s Letter to the Indiana Governor
Just two days ago Gen Con’s owner and CEO Adrian Swartout sent a letter to Indiana’s governor Mike Pence and basically threatened that Gen…
Lazy Monday Video Post: Dungeon Bastard – Bill Cavalier vs. Monte Cook
I actually tried to come up with a witty and interesting post this morning, but alas my creative juices are not flowing as they…
CONcurrent is coming!
And just what is CONcurrent you ask? It’s an online convention parallel to the best four days in gaming taking place in Indie. CONcurrent…
Savage Worlds, playing The Wild Hunt (and a long winded retrospective…)
I have been intrigued by Savage Worlds ever since I first read about it. A system designed to be “fast, furious and fun”, without…
The Genesys of a new game!
Miss me? Well that’s a deafening silence… I guess the interwebz is a harsh mistress. Before I plunge into the post at hand let…
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 4!
I fear this whole Gen Con retrospective might be getting a little old, after all Gen Con ended 2 weeks ago. With all the…
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 3: On to other stuff…
So we’ve covered role-playing games (and I missed a couple of things but I’ll get to that in my next post), other games and…
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 2: Other games and minis too!
And we are back… Welcome to part 2 of my Gen Con retrospective. When we left our brave traveler he was in the midst…