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Fiction, roleplaying, and 21st century storytelling.

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  • Reality

    I missed posting this Monday, a somewhat obvious statement. I’m traveling, over in the UK on business but with a little mini-vacation bolted onto the front. For some reason the first quarter of the year is a travel season for me this year, with a couple other work trips coming up soon. Work trips are,…

  • Being Perceived

    I’m in my tenth year of ‘writing on the internet’ at Cannibal Halfling; although I’ve arguably been writing on the internet since I had a LiveJournal in high school, joining forces with Seamus and attempting to have a consistent mission and editorial stance marked the addition of something my writing never really had before: Readers.…

  • We sure do love our cameos

    Every once in a while our gaming group has what we’ve been calling a ‘Nexus’ campaign. In essence, an excuse to revisit old characters and inject some nostalgia and fun callbacks into our games. I like these games because they provide a good release valve for the desire to recall old characters and old events;…

  • Tarot read for February, 2026

    We’re going to try something a little different today. Now that we’ve had a few months reading a simple three-card Tarot spread, I’m going to switch it up and use a spread specific to storytelling and RPGs. A while back there was a game called Querent released via Kickstarter. While the game part of it…

  • In Dreams

    There’s been a lot going on in my life here in January, but I had allocated some time on Saturday to write more of ‘Nat Meets Donnie’ and hopefully get part 2 up today. Instead, an RPG ruleset came to me in a dream and I had to write it down. I’m not kidding. There’s…

  • Whither nerds?

    I’ve been thinking on this topic in one way or another for a long time, but have been reluctant to write on it. Gatekeeping is very real in most hobbies, and for the most part it’s toxic. What value does it have to tell someone going on 12mph rides trying to get in shape that…

  • A whole new (campaign) world

    For 2026 I kicked off a new campaign with my main gaming group, at least in a manner of speaking. After playing a campaign using Apocalypse World: Burned Over for 18 sessions, one of my players triggered one of the new Burned Over mechanics, the ‘game changer’. I employed my ‘game changer’ of choice, which…

  • Tarot read for January, 2026

    New year, new deck! Today I’ll be drawing from my copy of the Pixel Occult Neon Moon Tarot, the first Tarot deck I bought because of its explicitly cyberpunk style and themes. Unfortunately, one thing this deck has done is relabel the suits, which makes quick readings a bit more difficult. Once you use it…

  • The first year

    New Wonk Media is my first new writing project since kicking off Cannibal Halfling Gaming back in 2016. I knew in reading my old blogs (there are at least three different WordPress blogs that I’ve aggregated under “The 563rd Attempt”) that there were varying missions and varying levels of discipline to my writing over the…

  • Nat meets Donnie, part 1

    It may be self-indulgent, but not long after running my most recent game of DIE I imagined my characters meeting each other, timelines be damned. This is the first part of that; I think I have three vignettes I want to write about Nat and Donnie meeting and becoming friends at their college orientation. This…