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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The ballad of Tickles the Clown
“I didn’t become a clown because all the serious roles were taken. I became a clown because all the serious roles were tainted.” In all my years of role-playing, no character became as fully formed, as vivid in my mind, as Tickles the Clown. Tickles was a Rockerboy, a charisma-based character class from the Cyberpunk…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love video game romance
I wasn’t really one who was drawn to romance in my reading or media consumption for a very long time. Being a, well, cishet male, this may not necessarily come as a surprise to many people. That said, I did, much later in life, figure out that, at some level, it was something I was…
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Tarot read for December, 2025
It’s a new month, and that means another tarot pull. I’m doing another three card past, present, future spread, once again using my deck of the Bianco Nero Tarot, like last month. For the new year I’ll kick us off with a new deck, and from there we’ll move into some new spreads. We start…
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Introducing my self-inserts
I appreciate each and every one of you who read my story last week, hopefully it gave some entertainment or provoked some thought. As was likely obvious after reading the whole thing, Nat was my character in the most recent game of DIE I ran; the story itself both tied in to some events that…
