Magnolia Keep

This blog post started, like so many do, as me getting mad at a YouTuber.

One of the great joys of reading old Dragon Magazine is that it offers a perhaps-unintended amount of insight into the gamer mind, and nowhere is this more true than the letters pages.

Recently I bought KILLBUG, because it was less than two bucks on Steam (and will be until September 8th, 2026), and I'd been looking for something mindless and action-y.

As I'm writing this, there are two main Hullabaloos I'm aware of in the RPG scene.

One of the greatest temptations in any budding GM's life is the idea of building up an entire world out of nothing.

In a discussion about the new Dark Sun on Sly Flourish's Patreon discord about how the setting seems to be shying away from slavery (and other situations where the whole thing is underexamined, I said the following: "It's just funny to see a game where ea…

This is not an analysis.

I've been spending the past little while visiting my girlfriend, and on the plane ride back I started reading the book Conquistador, by S.M.

Last time, I went through all the actual serious problems with Deathbringer's marketing campaign: the racism, the misogyny, the one weird kinda homophobic potshot Professor DM made in the opening minute of the video.

As I write this, Deathbringer, the self-proclaimed most anticipated RPG of 2026, is entering day two of its Backerkit campaign and has raised three-quarters of a million dollars.

It's no secret I'm into Orcs.

I mentioned in my Sentinel Comics Review that I should probably check out Spectaculars at some point.

Autogynespolia was a game inspired by Darling Demon Eclipse's post on Faggot games.

As part of the ongoing Prismatic Wasteland Randomness Blogwagon, I'm writing exactly 2,000 (so long as you don't count) words on random character creation in roleplaying games, why I think it's good, and why I think it's bad, because if nothing else Magno…

I am so fucking tired of discourse.

I've spoken before about implied worldbuilding, how fun it can be to tease apart the world that the rules of Dungeons and Dragons build.

As part of my crawl through the history of Dragon Magazine, something I have noticed is that from an early age the Gaijin Gamer has always been particularly fascinated by the martial culture of Glorious Nippon.

This post is part of a series: Stranger Than Fiction In the second area of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the city of Kutna Hora has a fountain in it that most first-time visitors will see going in.

I'm a big fan of taking notes when playing video games, I'm the kind of pervert The Painscreek Killings was made for.

I recently joined Meet the RPG, a round-robin thing organized on the Paper Cult Club forums, and we just went through three-ish sessions (plus a Session Zero) of Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game, an rpg based on the Sentinels of the Multiverse card g…

I've started work on an RPG named Elfkisser, and while I was discussing it Elizabeth of Patchwork Paladin jokingly asked when I was working on Orcstabber.

One of my longer-running side projects has been going through the ENWorld Gary Gygax Q&A.

One of the central maxims of the OSR is that the answer is not on your character sheet.

I did not grow up in the Call of Duty lobbies.

"You may be a group of unsightly men sitting around a card table on a Friday night, but your players will still be looking for chances to meet girls" -Shamus Young, DM of the Rings XII: NPC Non Grata I've been reading through old Dragon Magazines, and one…