When their yacht sinks, a group of Welsh teenagers seek refuge on an abandoned island hotel, only to find the hotel is stuck in a time loop where life and death become one and the same. … More Bloody New Year (1987)
Sarah decides to spend Christmas with her boyfriend Ted’s family in rural Wisconsin. Upon arriving, Sarah begins to feel a strange presence. Before long, a mysterious figure dressed as a samurai appears, murdering its way towards Ted’s family household… … More Blood Beat (1983)
A Brief History of Our Current Crowded Streaming Service Marketplace, or, How I Learned To Love Spending Too Much Money For Services That Provide Shows I Rarely Watch And Movies I Don’t Like (And Also HBOMax) … More A Brief History of Our Current Crowded Streaming Marketplace
While crumbling in places, the thick cobblestone of the Guyourne Byway runs through lush farmland and the occasional copse of trees, a monument to a previous civilization’s now-lost engineering prowess. Less-traveled than in the recent past, it remains the main trade artery for the surrounding farmland and villages to reach the markets at Rocourt—as such, … More Voyages in Auvergny – The Guyourne Byway
I’ve spent the last few weeks re-watching (and catching up on) Game of Thrones, a show that’s already pretty much a must-watch series of the decade… and I’m not just saying that as a fantasy gamer and fan of the book series. I can see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but there’s a … More Some thoughts on Game of Thrones
Exalted was the RPG I lived and breathed in college. It was an odd thing, especially as it was the glorious heydey of White Wolf, the one product line that was rumored to outsell all their other lines combined. My group played it obsessively, almost obsessively as the inbred L5R group played their Asian-themed CCG and … More So, recently I was convinced to run Exalted.
One of the things I’ve picked up over the years has been that some new-to-Fate GMs aren’t really sure how to finagle all the dials—as in, just about every game mechanic is inherently designed to be scalable, and a GM can easily create a certain tone or style of game by setting the dials to whatever degree … More Fate Core and choosing the right Skills for the job
Ravenloft is finished… just in time for Wizards to release the Curse of Strahd adventure, which one of my other groups is prepping to play, hurray. I guess I can’t complain too much because they did expand it into a full 5e campaign that takes players from first to tenth level, and it includes some … More I6 Ravenloft for D&D 5e – Sessions IV & V
It’s been a long time since we managed to run Ravenloft—over a month, delayed due to various work trips, vacations, a national holiday, and various bullshit. Oh, and there was that weekend we cancelled everything and got snowed in at a gaming convention a few cities to the south. But return we did! This is … More I6 Ravenloft for D&D 5e – Session III
For 2015’s annual horror game, I offered to run a “one-shot” of Ravenloft. So far, we’re two sessions in and nobody has died. That will probably change. … More I6 Ravenloft for D&D 5e – Sessions I & II
Logic is my Virgin Sacrifice to Reality 