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?
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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.
Unearthed Arcana May 2020: Subclasses Revisited
As much as they seem to have worse and worse names each time, we have a new UA out, dealing with subclasses again. As such, we have updates to the Revived Rogue, now called the Phantom, The Genie Warlock, and the Archivest wizard, who had been a artificer class that they cut if I’m reading …
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Culture Quest: The Martian
I was watching a panel with some cool people when I realized I hadn’t actually read (or watched) the Martian. I vaguely recall buying it, but never sat down and read it. So I turned to my local library, realized it was closed, so I bought a new copy of the book online. I read …
Thoughts about my Saturday Game
I’d do this just as a message in discord, but I can’t write there at work, and it’s going to be long as I’m just going to be SoCing this.