Off Topic

For those who celebrate, Merry Christmas Eve!

I am an ardent believer that not only is it fun to play a wide variety of TTRPGs, it can also improve your skill as a player or game master in every system you play.

With people traveling everywhere right about now, I am struck by two thoughts.

If you're the gamer in your friend group or family, you often get asked about the various games you play, be they video games, tabletop RPGs, board games -- I have lost track of the amount of times I've been asked to explain Catan to people -- and you're put in the position of serving as a sort of unofficial ambassador for the hobbies you participate in and enjoy.

Hello and happy Friday!

Sometimes it's the stress of holiday preparation, sometimes it's getting final work deadlines met, sometimes it's the realization that it has been another long year that has managed to both fly by in a flash and drag on for way, way too long -- we're not sure what it is, but something makes the last few weeks of the year so inevitably exhausting.

I've been hearing about the return of real time strategy games for years and years now.

Sometimes it's as simple as hey, you get to raise dinosaurs.

There's been a lot of talk recently about fantasy racism in D&D (and plenty of other fantasy games), some of it by us.

Big open world RPGs could be used to defeat me if I ever became a threat to all life.