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According to IMDB users, the best season of Star Trek is Picard Season 3, which reunited the cast of The Next Generation in fan-pleasing fashion.

Pandemic: Fall of Rome A while ago, I introduced a friend of mine with a history degree to Pandemic: Fall of Rome, where you defend Rome from its enemies.

Agamemnon makes Odysseus sail away.

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I achieved my goal for Blaugust 2026, which was to turn many of my smaller ideas for articles into actual posts.

The two-player boardgame Kahuna has a Polynesian archipelago with some amateurishly named islands.

It’s great to see BASIC still referenced in pop culture (see my last BASIC post, BASIC in Tron: Ares).

Hard Moves vs.

One of the starting moves for Druids in Dungeon World 1 is: Shapeshifter When you call upon the spirits to change your shape, roll+Wis.

Running Colossal Cave as a setting recently reminded me that I once got a delightful three sessions of play out of the following notes.

As a kid, I was one of the quarter of Americans who have played gamebooks.

In the first edition of Apocalypse World, some moves provided a player with “hold”: READ A PERSON When you read a person in a charged interaction, roll+sharp.

From the Chicago Sun Times obituary of Jesse Jackson, this caught my attention: [Jesse Jackson] was supposed to write a speech — on patriotism, ironically — but the books he needed were not available at the McBee Avenue Colored Branch of the Greenville Pu…

One of the joys of acting as art director for Planet of the Week has been reviewing public-domain pulp science fiction art for use in the two books (the Player’s Guide and the GM’s Guide).

Worf in Picard seems true to this quote from the very first Worf-focused episode, “Heart of Glory”: “The true test of a warrior is not without, it is within.”

Most PbtA players of Reddit prefer conditions 4-to-1 to hit points (63% vs. 16%), according to this three-year old poll.