“This is Free Trader Beowulf” by Shannon Appelcline is to Traveller what the “Meints Index to Glorantha” is to, well, Glorantha. We need more books like these! It’s so interesting to read about the history of classic #TTRPG games.

The coffee-table-sized "This is Free Trader Beowulf", described as "A System History of Traveller". It talks about the history of the game, the people behind it, the various publications, editions, publishers, and more.

The book includes "collector checklists" which is actually quite useful when you're a collector! :)

A couple weeks ago, the good fluffy boy and I went over to Burnaby mountain! Nice view and crisp, fresh air as always.

16 March 2026 ∞

A Quick Look at ElfQuest Classic Deluxe

The old ElfQuest boxed set got the recent “revival” treatment by Chaosium’s excellent “Nostalgia Department” (aka the ever wonderful Chaosium president Rick Meints). After quite a successful Kickstarter campaign, the box was finally delivered this week to most backers. Since I’ve got nothing better to do this week-end, let’s take a quick look, and compare it to the old one!

Microsoft: “we’re using more and more AI in our development”!

Also Microsoft: “oops, Github is almost always consistently broken in some way or other”

A screenshot of the "Missing Github Status Page" (since the official one is... misleading). It shows that half the time over the past 90 days, something has been wrong with Github.

14 March 2026 ∞

“A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator”: this is awesome

14 March 2026 ∞

And that’s it for our Dragonbane campaign, after ~27 sessions! Azrael Koth lies impaled on a demon statue after being blasted by a Critical Thunderbolt spell worth 46 points of damage! Everybody rejoice! That game was great, and super easy to run.

The end of the last combat in Foundry. Of the four heroic player characters, two were down at zero HP, one was very low on HP and WP, and the final Thunderbolt spell was cast by trading HP for WP, a desperate attempt to finish off the big bad guy before he could wipe out the party!

13 March 2026 ∞

“The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada”: good job to Canadian journalism here, and to the Montreal gym owner who acted swiftly. But this is a reminder that Canada (and most European countries) are, like, less than 10 years away from a Trump-like debacle if we’re not vigilant.

13 March 2026 ∞

This little colour game is fun, but I suspect it depends more on your screen than on your eyes. I got 0.0080 on my phone and 0.0021 on my work monitor. At some point I think I could better see the monitor being dirty and imperfect than anything else.

12 March 2026 ∞

More on Star Trek VI: Martia is one of my all-time favourite Trek characters! Iman (the actress) chewing on a cigar here is a stroke of genius. I’d love to see a story featuring Martia doing whatever she did before being sent to the Rura Penthe mines!

12 March 2026 ∞

So Vulcans can just extract information from an unwilling person in a matter of seconds? They would make great interrogators! The Federation could be the most effective totalitarian government if they had a Vulcan Gestapo!

12 March 2026 ∞