As we near the end of 2020, it’s hard not to look both back and forwards with pessimism and cynicism – this year has taken so much from so many and has planted seeds of further tragedy and uncertainty that will likely take many more years to resolve. Hundreds of […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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This week we have another installment in Grant’s reading of the sermons of the Reverend Bob Lawrence. If you haven’t heard the previous entries, this one, like the others, is an imagined slice of life from someone adjacent to the Christmas story. Rev. Lawrence was quite the storyteller, and there […]
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts and readers have doubtless noticed for themselves, this has been an exceptionally rough year. We’ve been through what feels like a decade worth of struggle, hardship, chaos, discord, and, at least in my case, not a small amount of genuine fear. And there’s probably […]
This episode marks the first of the two episodes we came up with based on a Patreon Question back in episode 189 – we’re talking about GM Prep. We check in as usual and then – perhaps ironically, perhaps appropriately for an episode that we came up with while answering […]
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 […]