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Jul 7, 2023
I Ain't No Fortunate Winter's Daughter

After thinking a bit too much about the system, adventure, and pitch my Muster-inspired campaign finally hit the table. There was an immediate twist, though, as one of the players...
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Jun 2, 2023
An Alternative XP System for The One Ring 2nd Edition

When we sat down the play The One Ring 2E there was a glaring issue: XP was boring. It’s a static award for showing up. It only provides incentive to...
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May 26, 2023
The Third Aesthetic

After basically writing a design doc for the game we kicked off our wargaming-way inspired game last Saturday. It was a blast, but in a way that seems aesthetic-adjacent to...
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May 19, 2023
A Wargaming Way Starter Kit

Summer scheduling has landed me an opportunity to run a game that’s been on my wishlist1 for a while now: a dungeon-crawling adventure game in the wargaming way. Since reading...
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May 12, 2023
Music Is Good Actually (Especially These Albums)

It’s a good month1 for music. Or at least for elder emo dad music. The National has a new album, which is basically a holiday on my calendar. I can’t...
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Apr 7, 2023
Crises

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, huh? My DC reading really lapsed when Marvel launched Unlimited, and only started to pick up a bit recently. I’d heard just enough about Dark...
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Mar 24, 2023
The History of Illegal Things

There’s many reasons to recommend Caroline Dodds Pennock’s On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe, but this portion entirely reconfigured my understanding of history in a few sentences: Since...
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Mar 17, 2023
Secreter Invasion

Change of pace: I’ve been migrating old blog posts, plus reading the excellent newsletter/blogs of Eero and Kieron, and it made me realize that the biggest barrier to me writing...
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