The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

It’s always funny for me to see the open source community constantly come back to the same schisms of open software versus anti-corporate movements, and idealists versus pragmatists.


Mastodon admins: let’s block Threads, to prevent it from coming into the Fediverse!

Threads: you don’t seem to understand, YOU locked yourselves OUT of the Fediverse!


Continuing my first watch of Star Trek, “The Omega Glory” not only drops the ball on what looked like an interesting plot, it also super-over-abuses the “alien planet naturally evolves Earth’s exact history” trope. Ugh.


The only way to think a Gamemaster can “cheat” is to think that they can “win”. And that’s obviously the wrong way to think about #TTRPG


My “amnesiac werewolves” adventure for RuneQuest is now with my editor. Next: my “Goonies in Glorantha” intro campaign, a Vaesen mystery with a naked violin player, a Delta Green case containing the word “soporinth”, and a Call of Cthulhu scenario set in BC,Canada #TTRPG #writing


JM DeFoggi and his family are having a rough year so you can help them a bit by contributing to this GoFundMe or, if you’ve been thinking about buying some of JM’s work like his BRP-inspired Bronze Age fantasy game “Jackals”, now’s the time!


Rolemaster has at least NINE different outcomes for a roll! Such a narrative #TTRPG! Much Story Now! Very modern!