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  • Last Laugh

    “Holy shit, it’s Tickles the motherfucking Clown.” I hope you’ll indulge me and this little bit of table fiction featuring a short reprise of my first character in my group’s Cyberpunk Red game.

  • No plan survives first contact

    As some of you already know, the bulk of my gaming is with an online group that first formed when most of us met in college. As we graduated, grew up, and figured out life, we all ended up in different places in terms of geography, careers, and general arrangement. Some are married, some are…

  • Places to spend time in

    I think the one thing I’ve always wanted from my gaming settings is for them to feel lived in and livable. It’s a difficult proposition on a couple of levels; for one thing, a lot of mainline subgenres of science fiction and fantasy do a very bad job of this. In fantasy the issue is…

  • Busy week for me…not so much for the site.

    I’m currently in Texas, attending a conference for work. Needless to say, I did not have time to post by Monday and I don’t really have a topic on-hand for a late post either. I’ll be back next week with some new thoughts about my latest worldbuilding project; there will be a Cannibal Halfling post…

  • Nat meets Donnie, part 4

    Read part 1,  part 2, and part 3 of this story. Orientation was rapidly, shockingly replaced by school. While it was all fine and good (and arguably necessary) to take a week to allow students to adjust to a new lifestyle and an expanded degree of independence, nothing about orientation represented school. The minute that first class began…

  • Functional and Aspirational Worldbuilding

    I have been slowly chipping away at my worldbuilding project for my next TTRPG campaign. It’s slow for multiple reasons; in addition to dealing with writing priorities, energy, and a little bit of writer’s block, it also turns out my hiatus hasn’t started yet. Yeah, I ran a game session on Sunday, and while this…

  • Mixtape and Memories

    I played through and finished Mixtape at the beginning of the weekend. I really enjoyed it; it is obviously aimed at the generation who as kids were lugging CD players around everywhere they went, though as someone who had access to a CD burner at 13 I’m likely a bit younger than the characters in…

  • Volume

    Training to be a faster cyclist is simple. I didn’t say easy, but it is simple. While you can fuss over aero, over weight (of you and the bike), over nutrition, and over every other detail, there’s one simple correlation: The fastest cyclists ride the most. Volume, number of miles ridden, is the most important…

  • Nat meets Donnie, part 3

    Read part 1 and part 2 of this story. Nat and Donnie followed Claire down into the basement, where the age of the house was made a bit more clear in the absence of any renovations…or any finished walls, for that matter. Donnie instinctively crouched to avoid some of the rafters in the ceiling, though…

  • A lot can happen in twenty years

    2025 was my twentieth high school reunion. While I didn’t mark this by attending any sort of awkward excuse for a party or in fact seeing any of my old classmates whatsoever, I can’t help but acknowledge that May of 2025 kicked off a whole lot of twentieth anniversaries in my life. Once high school…