The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

The Mars Volta’s latest album (first one in over ten years) is very mellow and pop-sounding, which is an unsurprising departure from their previous work. I’m happy to hear a few tracks with strong Latin-American vibes.


The vote is in, people: pretty much none of my players liked the Traveller character creation system! #ttrpg


Here is my final haul from ChaosiumCon, where I managed to play all currently published Chaosium games (more or less šŸ˜‹) #ttrpg


Ready to go to ChaosiumCon! I’m only running one game this year, my all-Telmori action thriller for RuneQuest, but doing plenty other stuff!


It’s very useful to have a well defined campaign framework, with players making characters that fit the premise, but sometimes I like letting players make whatever character they want for the setting and I figure out the campaign premise from them! Fun challenge #ttrpg


Poker Face was great fun! A great homage to Columbo, it never matches the cleverness of its mysteries, but makes up for it in humour, great characters, and varied locales. Natasha Lyonne channels Peter Falk like nobody, but also builds a great original character.


Future Man is way better than I expected! I haven’t laughed out loud this much since The Good Place. Wolf is so good, the story goes to absolutely bonkers places, it’s amazing. Now going into season 2, let’s see if it holds the distance.