Save vs. Total Party Kill

I haven’t played Magic: The Gathering seriously since High School, though I stil have many of my cards and decks from the 90s.

The Mythic Bastionland Kickstarter is wrapping up today.

Patrick turned his blog into a giant bible sized book: Speak, False Machine.

Michael, of Trilemma fame, has started running a zombie survival game set on the Isle of Wight.

Eric’s Hobby Workshop takes a look at one of Game Workshop’s craziest games, Inquisitor!

2022 was a slog from beginning to end.

My current obsession is the 2021 edition of Kill Team.

The #TorontOSR posse met up recently and Paul ran a game of D&D for us using his tweaks and house rules.

Tom over at the Beard Bunker writes, “Inquisitor was a bad game, and that’s why I loved it.”

I loved this essay by Tim Colwill about the Warhammer 40,000, its not-so-slow march towards bland corporatism, and being ineffectual at dealing with people who love the fascism of the setting: Satire Without Purpose Will Wander In Dark Places.1 Games Work…

Nick writes about one of my favourite video games, and probably the most difficult Final Fantasy game in its series, FF1.

Chris recently shared a draft of a war game set in Bastionland.

I was looking for minis at the Sword and Board when I spotted a copy of CY_BORG sitting on a shelf.

When I met up with Patrick at Warhammer World he picked up the second Realms of Chaos book, the Lost and the Damned.

A million years ago Rey started talking about a game he was working on called Break!!

I was in England over the last couple weeks to visit my brother.

I had shipped several books to my brother in UK, one of those was Gangs of Titan City.

I picked up Luke Gearing’s adventure for the Best Left Burried system, Behind Closed Doors.

With some serendipitous timing, Luke Gearing has written a blog post comparing room descriptions written in long form prose rather than bullet points.

They announced the latest edition of Warhammer 40,000 last night at AdeptiCon.

I finished reading the rest of Demon Bone Sarcophagus this morning.

Patrick could have given this monster a dumb fantasy name, but like a true professional tells you what it does on the box.

BreakoutCon is this weekend.

I ran Temple of the Peerless Star1 using Trophy Gold for some of the TorontOSR posse.

Trophy Gold has some optional light weight rules for journeys that have the players slowly building up a point crawl style map of the world.

My boy Nate–the man running what sounds like the greatest 5E game ever–reviews one of the greatest video games ever, Elden Ring.

Goonhammer writes about the history of GorkaMorka, which proves to be far more interesting than you might expect.

This winter the Sword & Board is running a Mordheim campaign.

Sean shared a pretty cool project on Twitter, which has really blown up: #dungeon23.

I have been reading the Mothership Warden’s Manual over the last week, the “DMG” for Mothership.

I’ve been looking forward to Marcia’s tidied up version of OD&D.

I met up with Alex, Brendan and Paul last night from the #torontOSR posse.

Man, Twitter really does feel like a hot mess right now.

In a project that seems like pure madness, Patrick is compiling the entirety (give or take) of his blog False Machine into a book.

Josh from Rise Up Comus almost lost 6 years of notes about his D&D campaign!

I suspect the death of Twitter is greatly exaggerated.

Sean has shared some interesting thoughts on player safety tools in RPGs, something that’s been on his mind as he writes the dungeon master’s guide for his game Mothership: Thinking about Safety Tools in RPGs.

The first part of the infamous follow up to Deep Carbon Observatory is finally out, Demon Bone Sarcophagus.

I had been not so patiently for my copy of Into the Odd to arrive.

The Ennies are today?

I recently shared my Gygax 75 draft and was complimented on putting a Dragon as the last entry on the example encounter table for the region.

Over at Prismatic Wasteland Warren discusses how to make sure your D&D encounters are their most impactful.

Mateo over at Hex Culture has written a great post about how to make the lore of your setting more interesting and actionable for your players.

There are three books that make up Original Dungeons & Dragons.

I was visiting my local game store and saw an art book featuring the work of Ana Polanšćak, the woman behind the incredible blog Gardens of Hecate.

These notes and Arneson’s would ultimately become Dungeons & Dragons, but only by being codified could the game really be propagated and begin to gather a following.

An idea I read on James’s blog Grognardia long ago, which I quite liked, was what he called “D&D is always right”.

Jason Tochi of 24XX fame wrote a great post a little while ago about what he calls the three layers of rules: social, fictional, and abstract.

Thanks to Sean McCoy we can enjoy this interview with James Maliszewski about Empire of the Petal Throne.

As I have discussed in the past, I got started with D&D playing with the Rules Cyclopedia.