I recently wrote about my disaffection with gaming – something that’s been creeping over me for a while. There has been a more tangible example recently of my struggles to enjoy my at-the-table experience and how it manifests in game systems. We’ve been playing the Pathfinder 2e playtest. Now, I played a lot of Pathfinder …
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I was in a little secondhand bookstore, in a basement of an old building, looking buying a couple books of poetry by obscure authors when the guy behind the counter said to me, "Poetry is a young man's game." We talked about it a little - I being only in my mid-twenties at the time …
I recently posted about my frustration with some of the oddities of Shadowrun 5e on Facebook and was asked to elaborate on some of the specifics of what I'm encountering. This is a much easier medium to write a long post in than Facebook though, so I'm putting it here - where it will post …
Diceless games are hard. I've written about diceless games before - I love Amber DRPG - and explored other games that don't use dice (or cards, or any sort of randomizer). I tend to very much enjoy games without randomizers, without the disturbance of dice. I've tinkered with trying to create such a game several …
Terrible title. I've been having an amusing conversation online with some friends about how to pronounce "D&D words." Words like Drow and Mordenkainen and Corellon. This mainly happened because I was watching a video of Jeremy Crawford talking about stuff in the newest 5th edition book. In the video, Jeremy Crawford pronounces Drow as in …
I thought about not even writing about this game. Here's the short version. I love Battletech. I don't love this new video game. To examine that statement with a bit more nuance... I'll just give you my impressions of the game. Take them as you will. I've put about 20 hours into the game and …
The newest Battletech videogame, from Harebrained Schemes is now officially released, so it seemed like a good time to return to Battletech. In my previous post I mentioned that there were two significant debates I see crop up about Battletech and that they were both somewhat intertwined. The first was about why Battletech never achieved the …
