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Magical Kitties Save the Day, the game I co-designed with creator Matthew Hanson and Michelle Nephew, is being placed under an open license by Atlas Games! Atlas asked me back to answer some questions about Magical Kitties, the open...
Hey, Bear. The deployment is scheduled and will happen soon. So I had about 17teen days to rest after 28 days of the previous deployment, which was total hell. Well, it could have been more tbh, considering we have quite a few people...
Fortunately, not all of these casualties have been fatalities. The VA will no doubt resist treating those that are just maimings as "service-related" — rather unusually, with substantial justification. The fatality involves the...
How many things can one do in a round, and how does it change the feel of the game? I am playing OD&D this week, running through Thracia with the amazing d4 hp magic-user, and I love being able to attack twice from range (if I don’t...
Enola Holmes 3 (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for violence and dramatic intensityAvailable via: NetflixBy Derrick BangThis series continues to delight on all levels. Director Philip Barantini, new to the...
I’m endlessly confounded (as a user) and fascinated (as a designer) when it comes the shortcut conventions in Google’s professional web apps. They seem… bad, but bad in a strange, inexplicable, enthralling way. Previously, we encountered...
Still Surfing #5¶ Notes, links, and other things I'd like to share. Could do it through my micro-blog, but that's a bit a nicer format, isn't it? 🎧 Hidden Brain – The Cowboy Philosopher¶ A podcast I enjoyed for so many reasons! It's...
It’s been a little over two months since I wrote about wanting to go a little more analogue with parts of my workflow. I bought pens. I bought a notebook. Now what? Have they been collecting dust in a drawer somewhere or have I actually...
Link: Trump dismantled a federal climate website. These women rebuilt it., by Jenae Barnes at The 19thThis shouldn’t have been necessary, but is still wonderful to see. Climate.gov had been the go-to resource for climate data, but it...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
This past weekend I got to run Tom Mecredy's He Ain't Gonna Jump No More for a group of friends. HAGJNM is "tournament module" (or "capsule game") in which players control paratrooper squads during D-day. Players have 21 hours to...
Back in Nottingham.Home of Castle Rock, stone lions guarding the old council house, a higher proportion than usual of folks in heavy metal t-shirts, and plenty of houses on the market vacated by ex-Premier League managers.On the agenda...
More links from about the internet - for still more, check out the huge set from the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,...
you make a million decisions in the course of your life, and you'll forget most of them. as i set out to write this, at 4am, it feels very important. that's why i've made the decision to write it. it feels important because it is 4am,...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 118-119: On March 18, 2014, Vladimir Putin delivered one of the most consequential speeches of his career. Addressing a joint session of...