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Let’s Try This Again I’m so grumpy that I have not committed to a an action resolution mechanic for Opera Eterna.

Pixel Dungeon There is one silly little roguelike game that somehow keeps sucking me back in year after year despite its simplicity.

Public / Private Sex is contested ground.

Make Faggot Games Catherine of Darling Demon Eclipse recently published a blog post titled Faggot Games: An Urgent Warning, a manifesto that calls for the genesis of radically faggoty RPGs.

RPG Nite Labs IRL I organize a monthly open table play group with Alex Roberts out here in the PNW.

The News If you haven’t already heard from last week’s blog post, PinkSpace is now on Patreon!

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday to my blog!

Veneration In our moment of crisis we prayed to our Saints.

“You have two stats.”

A Journey In the past I’ve explored the function behind regular combat encounters in JRPGs.

wtf r u talking about Boys Boys Boys is a late night warehouse party that pops up periodically in Vancouver, BC, and bills itself as “a night celebrating joyful faggotry & sexual freedom in a consensual and safer queer environment.”

The Progress Track Let’s look at one of my building blocks for Nova Crystallis!

My Favourite Cisheterotopia A few years back, I was chatting with my friend Jay White about roleplaying games, a perennial event where we gush about the games we like to play and what we love most about them.

This play report follows the third playtest/evolution of my hack of The Quiet Year by Avery Alder, which I’m currently calling Cities & Seasons.

I Have Something to Tell You I want to tell you about my current major RPG project, which has been on the backburner for a few years but has been rapidly coalescing as a result of the posts I’ve been writing on this blog.

The Journey Continues This is part 2 of my post exploring For the King’s universal resolution roll.

Fort Heking Recently I picked up For the King 2 for my live-in partner who had unexpectedly fell in love with the original.

Anathema I don’t have a great relationship with my body.

The Evolution of a Game My friend June asked me at some point last year what I thought Final Fantasy is as a franchise.

Binder Games I wish to make a Binder Game.

Three Houses A few months ago I started a new playthrough of the tactical RPG Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

A place I’ve never been In 1969, my paternal grandmother and grandfather emmigrated from Calabria, Italy, to British Columbia, Canada with their kids in tow — my father included.

Reasons I Fuck Up 1.

ATB (or active-time battle) is a time-based alternative to initiative turn order for combat encounters.

Anyone who has played a classic JRPG will likely have stories to tell about dramatic plot twists and challenging boss encounters, but in my experience you’d be hard pressed to find stories about the mid-game drakes they struck down with a couple attack co…

A New Hack This past week I subjected one of my long time off-and-on-again play groups to a playtest of a feverishly written hack of the legendary The Quiet Year by Avery Alder.

Lost & Found I have a small black book that I picked up at a rest stop along the highway this fall.

At 2:20am last night I was thinking about the notion of tactics like a healthy and functional human being would.

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