Our old vacuum cleaner died. We got a new one that’s better for our hardwood floors, and it comes with a fancy laser that lets you see what you’re picking up. It was a mistake. I mean, it works exactly as advertised, and you can indeed clearly see where you’ve already vacuumed, and where you […]
It’s always fun to catch up with online TTRPG discussions because every week or so there’s a hot debate taking my feed by storm. Most of the time I don’t know where it comes from, but this week’s was on topic for which I already had an old post draft, so I figured I would […]
In my recent post about the passing of Jennell Jaquays, I mentioned how “Jaquaying the dungeon” had become fairly common parlance to refer to Jennell’s innovative dungeon design from the early 1980s. While researching/fact-checking that, I had found that Justin Alexander (who coined the term) had recently changed the term to “Xandering”. That new term […]
It was sad to wake up this morning with an update from Rebecca Heineman, Jennell Jaquays’ spouse and organizer of the GoFundMe campaign to finance her latest medical treatments, announcing that Jennell had passed away. Jennell is of course a legendary roleplaying games designer and artist, whom various people will associate with various famous adventure […]
It’s that time of the year when we reflect on our twelve months of TTRPG’ing! You might know that I love stats and spreadsheets and graphs, but once again you won’t see any here: I find that social gaming circles get a bit too much into a contest about who played more sessions and systems. […]
Joan Westenberg misses the internet: The real internet. The one we used to have. Before it all got so much less – and somehow so much more – complicated. […] The one that existed before terms of service. The one that existed before social graphs. The one where being a User meant having a degree […]
Using the scientific method, we can conclude that “heaven” is most probably the aluminum foil that’s over the bun and inside the paper bag.
This weekend we went to Origins Chocolate Bar in New Westminster and got a bit carried away. We also got our March subscription drop, which includes a true fact about how the French consume chocolate!