This year has been a potent reminder that “may you live in interesting times” is a curse. The year has seen natural disasters, civil unrest, viciously polarized politics, and a massive global pandemic which has caused its own enormous set of problems. I have to admit, it was hard to […]
It’s a thing that often happens in games but seldom gets much detailed thought put into it: the PCs decide to go off and find something mundane to do like shopping or fishing. We start the episode off with the usual check-in and then move on to our Patreon question […]
I have made it known on both the podcast and this blog that I am not the world’s biggest fan of published adventures or settings. A lot of the creative enjoyment of GMing for me comes from making my own stuff, and with that as given, why would I skip […]
We’re back with our 4th-quarter episode selected by our Patreon backers and it’s definitely kind of an “old-school” episode by our standards where we take a specifically-biblical theme and unpack and discuss it. This time, we’re ruminating on the topic of Eden and all of the themes of paradise, fall, […]
Today is election day in the US. If you’re reading this the day it drops, live in the US and haven’t voted yet, mask up (we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, after all) and go do so. Much depends on it. If you’re looking for a little late-in-the-game […]
This week’s episode is something a little bit different: we did an online panel on spooky elements at the tail end of SAFe 2020, sort of a sum-up of our “spooky fall” series with some general advice. It turned out well enough that we have decided to pull the audio […]
Fall is usually the time when we turn to horror media. Halloween decorations of witches, skeletons, zombies, mummies, werewolves, Frankenstein’s monster and more start to appear in the yards of houses, horror movies, books, and games all come out, and people embrace the weird and spooky. Large, multiplayer video games […]
As October continues, so does our “Spooky Fall” lineup of horror and horror-adjacent topics. This time, we’re talking about “creepy crawlies” – the vermin and pests from snakes to spiders to locusts that can cause problems far bigger than their apparent size. We start off as usual with a host […]
As I’ve mentioned on the podcast, I have a supporting role in EN Publishing’s “Level Up” project, and they have, as of this writing, released three playtest documents. The Origins document, which details the new “race” mechanics (split into heritage and culture) and backgrounds, the first ten levels of the […]
Spooky fall continues with creative collaboration episode! We start with a check-in and some news – we can now be found on the Pray.com app and Faithcasts.com, should either of those strike your fancy. We all had fairly decent weeks leading up to recording, and kick off with a discussion […]
This post has its roots in a recent blog post from Richard Beck in which he laments the worst effects of social media and makes the rather bold and controversial assertion that Christians shouldn’t be on social media. It’s a short post – I’d ask that you read it and […]
We’ve decided that a fun way to carve some enjoyment out of this uncooperative year is to do a general spooky topics roundup and so we’ve got another one for you this week. We start off with some exciting news: Jenny has done a fashion walk and Peter is on […]