Infernal Pact

Intro Follows is a campaign retrospective for my Ashes Without Number, Cities Without Number, Stars Without Number mashup game set in a hollow planetoid soon after humanity discovers faster-than-light travel.

INTRO It's a well-trodden joke on the rainbow OSR discord server that sometimes well-meaning but lost players of OldSchool RuneScape (OSRS) enter, looking for a different server.

Blogwagonning off similar posts by Grace, Louis and Phlox, I thought I'd describe how I run and prep games.

Follows is a reflection on my 2025 in gaming and a look ahead to the games I'm running in 2026. 2025 ======== 2025 was a quiet year for blogging (both writing and reading), but I was still running quite a few games.

Merry GLoGmas Vivanter!

Earlier this week I wrote about the end of my Pokemon RPG campaign.

I wrote about a custom Pokemon TTRPG game I was running for my friends a while ago here.

I mentioned that I had some smaller tips and thoughts on how to run a Cataphracts game of your own in my last post.

Recently, I ran and completed a Cataphracts game, inspired by Sam Sorensen's blog posts.

Recently, I ran and completed a Cataphracts game, inspired by Sam Sorensen's blog posts.