The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

Reading Classic RuneQuest: The Introduction Chapter

I’m coming back to my “Reading Classic RuneQuest” series after a hiatus caused by, you know, having to deal with my twelve other hobby projects 😄 Last time I read through the “Basic Role-Playing” booklet and now I’m finally getting into the actual RuneQuest book proper! Yay! But don’t get too excited, we’ll only do the Introduction chapter! Booo!

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Found some rhubarb jam in Squamish this week-end… One of my life rules is “if there’s rhubarb in it, I’ll by some”!

Two jars of rhubarb jam, supposedly made in France.

Went to the Sea-to-Sky Gondola yesterday for the first time, it looks pretty good from up there.


I love walking the dog this time of year because he leads me to all the places where I can get a face full of spiderwebs

The good fluffy boy looking all happy

One of my movie obsessions is anything to do with time travel, time loops, and other time shenanigans, but I’m running out of stuff to watch, so hit me up with your best, preferably obscure or underrated time-fuck movies and TV series!

A shot from the movie “Triangle”, one of my favourite time loop movies.

The August chocolate subscription delivery has arrived, yay! Also, I found the delivery from last May mostly uneaten because I had somehow hidden it in the back of the closet? I guess that’s more chocolate for me, double yay!


Based on the first few comments on my recent piece on Glorantha’s “lore baseline”, I added some clarifications to the article! I hope it helps…


My Dragonbane players finally beat Dead Eyes Cave! One of them was one roll away from death, but the other two made judicious use of their heroic abilities and spells. Getting to the monster’s last 2 HP was quite dramatic!

Quote of the game: “did you blindfold the chicken?”

Three cultists of Sathmog, blindfolded. My players killed them without any remorse. I tried to make them feel bad about it by saying that, technically, the cult of Sathmog has been the traditional faith of the Misty Vale for the past couple centuries, and that the players are enacting colonialist persecution against it... they didn't want to hear it :D

Good morning! You may be happy to know that the good fluffy boy is, as usual, good and fluffy.