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Campaign Status (30 seconds to read) Campaign: Curse of Strahd Highland Edition Session: 5 Party Level: 2 (Achieved Level 3 Milestone at session end) [1] Current Location: Death House (Ritual Chamber) → Preparing to enter Barovia [2, 3] Status: Death House

The machines are not plotting our extinction in a secret bunker.

I use AI in almost everything I write.

Castle Ravenloft There is a dangerous thing that happens when you decide to run Curse of Strahd and you also happen to really like maps, miniatures and terrain.

Campaign Status Campaign: Ravenloft: Mecha Games Edition Session: 2 Party Level: 4 Current Location: Terror in Tepest (Oatmarsh) Status: The party investigated the disappearance of villagers at a harvest ritual site and defeated the corrupted druid Burla…

How Christianity Got from “Turn the Other Cheek” to Holy War About Holy Wars Holy Wars is my ongoing exploration of the collision between religion, power, politics and violence—from the ancient world through the Crusades and beyond.

Drones, signals, surveillance – and what happens when we can no longer trust the encryption holding the modern world together.

A family history, a forgotten genealogy, and a project that may become something stranger Downtown Newburyport, close to where Thomas Dow’s house stood in the mid 1600’s.

Campaign Status Campaign: Curse of Strahd, Highland Edition Date: Sunday July 26 2026 Session: 4 Party Level: 3 Current Location: Death House Status: Exploring the dungeon beneath the house Next Session: Sun Aug 9 and/or Sun Sep 27 2026 Curse of Strahd –…

How I’m building a sustainable creative system for writing books, blogging, and sharing ideas through ToddHDow Studios.

My writing setup.

Graduation Day, June 21 2006 at the University of Toronto.

“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange This week’s Cryptogeddon Briefing is a little different.

ToddHDow.com has been part of my life for more than twenty years.

About Holy Wars Holy Wars is my ongoing exploration of the collision between religion, power, politics and violence—from the ancient world through the Crusades and beyond.

Artificial Intelligence has become one of the most valuable tools behind my DM screen.

I regularly track developments in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, critical infrastructure, and geopolitical competition.

Quote I’ve been pondering: Build something 100 people love, not something 1M people kind of like. – Brian Chesky This quote from Brian Chesky, Airbnb co-founder and CEO, is similar to Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans mantra.

On December 8 2025, we held our last Infosec Hamilton event of 2025.

It’s been a minute since I last posted.

Quote I’ve been pondering: “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” – Jean-Paul Sartre Do you ever get to the grocery store and forget all of items you came to get, or miss a step in some…

Quote I’ve been pondering: “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

Quote I’ve been pondering this week: “It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.” ― Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and engineer I recently watched Cherynobyl (five part miniseries from HBO).