I was distracted for a while with things like finding a new job and releasing some Call of Cthulhu adventures, but I’m now back to reading RuneQuest 2nd edition! We are finally out of the Introduction chapter (and some digressions about it), yay! Let’s enter the game proper! The next chapter is about character creation, […]
I hinted at it last time I talked about my camera system for Unreal Engine: it might come back. Well, now it sort-of has, and if you have some use for it, you can help by sponsoring its development and getting technical support for it! All the information can be found at my company’s website. […]
As promised last time I teased it, the first volume of the Canadian Chronicles is now available on DriveThruRPG. These are three scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, made and set in Canada, written by Francis Acquarone, Patrick Chandler, and myself. More details below!
I’ve been teasing it for a little bit but it’s getting closer and closer! The first three scenarios in the “Canadian Chronicles” series will be released next week on Chaosium’s Miskatonic Repository on DriveThruRPG. Here are some teasers and general information for each!
Catherine Ringer, singer for the band “Rita Mitsouko”, has recently passed away, so how about you watch and listen to this slice of late-1980s French music? Their most famous titles are “Marcia Baila” and “Andy”, two eminently catchy songs that saw a lot of gen-Xers and millennials dancing in their youth… also, yes the Rita […]
In the past couple years I’ve been thinking about an aspect of 21st century technology that I’m not sure has a name. I thought about it again when I read this recent post by Cory Doctorow on “The ordinariness of evil”. Cory talks about gen-AI CEOs touting the impending danger of their products as a […]
In the last article of the “Reading Classic RuneQuest” series, I looked at the Introduction chapter of the RuneQuest 2nd edition rulebook and noted that I would have things to say about the map of Glorantha we see here… as many of you know, I love maps, and this is one of the three classic […]
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My first 5 RPGs:
The Dark Eye (L’Oeil Noir in French)
MERP/Rolemaster
Cyberpunk 2020
Vampire: The Masquerade
Call of Cthulhu
(it’s all quite hazy in the middle, there was some Amber and Star Wars somewhere too)
For those who voted for the BC Conservatives, remember that their economic platform was mostly… wishful thinking and made up numbers, sprinkled with cuts to public services?
The next few years are going to be “fun”. Remember the rule of thumb: left wing governments barely ever make things better, but right wing governments almost always make things worse.
David Eby, last month, talking about calling a snap election (which historically doesn’t work out well most of the time)