POSSE is in the air
POSSE is in the air! Molly White recently published a great primer on the POSSE philosophy, so it’s time to do some rare advertising of my own tool, SiloRider
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POSSE is in the air! Molly White recently published a great primer on the POSSE philosophy, so it’s time to do some rare advertising of my own tool, SiloRider
I got my copy of Rosewood Abbey, a #TTRPG based on The Name Of The Rose and Cadfael! Here’s a quick look!
There haven’t been any blog posts about some of my open-source projects in a while and the reason for this is two-fold. First, I’ve been lazy about that side of my hobbies while I’ve been re-allocating my free time to writing and illustrating roleplaying game books. Second, I’ve actually discontinued a couple of my main […]
My friends over at the Titterpigs podcast did a recent episode on “played vs unplayed reviews”, and in a sort of interesting synchronicity, the Modern Mythos podcast just released an episode on actual plays. It’s interesting because I see all three types of content as being on the same scale of “game prep”. Let me […]
Every wondered how to play Delta Green without playing as one of those “problematic” US Law Enforcement agencies? Here is some advice for you! #TTRPG #DeltaGreen
Travis Miller wrote this interesting article on his Grumpy Wizard blog about “genre emulation” in TTRPGs. He basically argues that games don’t “emulate” a genre as much as they are part of that genre: To “emulate” is to imitate, simulate, or copy a thing without being the thing itself. If you are running a game […]
My team at Epic Games is looking for a software engineer! We are the Cinematics team inside the Unreal Engine team, and we develop, among other things, the Sequencer tool.
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“A new survey suggests that young people are shunning AI algorithms and online retailers to experience the joy of visiting bookshops”: fuck yeah. Every time I see an article about kids shunning big online silo ecosystems, it’s time to say fuck yeah.
The video of the SpaceX Super Heavy booster being caught back by the launch tower is absolutely amazing. Fuck Musk, but congrats to the SpaceX engineers for this amazing accomplishment!
I backed the Ars Magic Definitive Edition crowdfunding, but the thing that gave me pause was the marketing around a “massive” and “expanded” rulebook. I don’t want massive #TTRPG rulebooks! Why is everybody making rulebooks bigger with every edition? Can’t we go back to <256 pages?
Speaking of foreign interference, while everybody’s dealing with Russia, we in Canada do things a bit differently and are currently engaged in a whole thing with the Indian government. You know, FYI, in case you wanted to shake things up in your modern espionage #TTRPG campaign or something.
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