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  • Lessons learned

    I’ve started running Urban Shadows recently, and it’s one of only a few games I’ve decided to run again in the last few years. How can I do games better a second time, and will I be revisiting more games now?

  • Try to remember

    The time between Labor Day and the Autumnal Equinox is a bit liminal no matter how old you are, but at the beginning of adolescence it was both my time to look forward towards school but also, perhaps more importantly, look back towards camp.

  • Hitting the ground

    A word of advice: Don’t wait to take any of your company-issued PTO until the end of September.

  • Jenga

    A short and late post this week; let’s talk about all the literal (and figurative) falling block towers.

  • Approaching the autumn superhighway

    As summer wraps up, I get this distinct feeling that the remainder of the year accelerates; autumn rushes by you and all of a sudden it’s December and time to think about an entire new year that will also go too quickly. I don’t think it’s just me, but in the last couple of years…

  • Down with the sickness

    Got sick this weekend, unusually and surprisingly. There’s no post this week, but I’ll be back at it in another day or two.

  • Parasociality is weird

    Parasocial relationships are a weird artifact of the streaming age, but parasocial becoming social is not a part of being an RPG blogger I have ever gotten used to.

  • Energy levels

    Every time I plan a new game, it’s an explosion of possibility where anything can happen. But when I’m sitting alone getting everything ready is the exact moment I’m most afraid that all we’ll have is a wet lump of clay.

  • Pittsburgh at Night

    I wrote a little fiction as I did some prep for my online group’s next game: Urban Shadows, set in Pittsburgh.

  • The nerd shift (if it exists)

    Basically anyone can play a TTRPG. Basically anyone can share their opinion on Reddit. Combine those with Skinner Box upvoting, and you’ve got yourself some lowest-common denominator discourse.