This summer, the idea of “Beginnings” has been on my mind a lot. First, I’ve been starting a bunch of new things, recently. I finished on game and started a Council of Wyrms game, I’ll have a table on Wednesdays to restart our Gamestore’s playspace post-Quarantine starting soonish, and I also started a game for …
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Unearthed Arcana 2020 Classes part 4
New UA! Which mean another frank as I read it review. So let’s go. Bard: College of Spirts “These bards seek the spirits of philosophers and stories beyond the marteial plane” Huh, that’s a neat idea. “They do this using gaming sets” …. wat? *reads ahead* Ohh, they mean like a Ouija board. Okay, that’s …
Unearthed Acrana: 2020 Feats
Oh hey, new UA. This time about feats. Neat.
Culture-Re-Quest: The Origin of Space Whales
A bounty was offered by my brother to write an article on the history of the space whale, a staple of Sci-fauna. But when did it become so commonplace?
Diltensar Rough Draft: Building a Campaign World From Scratch
If you’re not one of my four players for an upcoming game, then this won’t make much sense. If you ARE one of those four, then this might not make much sense. There’s been a lot of lore and mechanical creep since we talked about things. I started building the mechanics system based on the …
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Culture Quest: American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
This is an odd book to write about, as this wasn’t on the Big List. For school, I wrote a paper on the reintroduction to wolves in Colorado, and I saw a reference to this book. Recently infatuated with my local library (See: Culture Quest) I placed an order without learning anything else about it. …
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Why I can’t run Theros: The Buy-in Scale
You never run out of white whales. It’s a fact in life. As a chaser of whales, I’m not confident in saying you’ll never catch them, because that’s something I literally cannot believe about this metaphor. I am incapable of that. And now we make a hard pivot to talk about gaming. There are some …
A Rough History of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
I was talking to a friend about RPGs and he asked if I knew about some drama from an upcoming Games Workshop Age of Sigmar RPG. I did not, so I did a bit of digging. Here’s the scoop on Age of Sigmar as far as I understand it. I could have details wrong, as …
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Mythic Odessys of Theros
I don’t have a physical copy yet, but I got a digital copy from D&D beyond and starting to read through it. And it looks exciting. The fact that the book acronyms out to MOOT is also pleasing.
Matt’s 5 RPGs (Plus 2)
A friend of mine on DeviantArt posted a thing recently talking about his top 5 RPGs. So I decided to do something similar. Let me walk you through my list.