Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 1

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

So, we played our first session of Mythic Bastionland. I think I’ll be blogging a log of events, and I’m going to skip anytying that would be spoilers for stuff the players don’t know about, for now at least. Maybe once the series is wrapped up, I’ll post a separate post with accumulated background spoilers and comments.   The epic begins quietly, deep in the Merragon forest (on the western edge of the map I shared last time), sometime in the afternoon. Three knights appear, riding their steeds. The first is Sir Yorick Childermass, the least knightly-looking of the lot in …

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Not Yet Gods Translation, Out Today!

I’m happy to announce that we have a new translation out today (11 November)! It’s a book by the South Korean SF author Djuna titled Not Yet Gods, which was translated by Jihyun Park and myself, and published by Kaya Press.  It was a big project and we want to express our thanks for indispensable editorial help from Sunyoung Park, Ly Lan Dill, and Michael Ahn.  Jihyun and I been translating together for about a decade now, but this is our first book-length translation. It’s a banger! A near-future SF linked short story collection (of the sort that we used …

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September/October 2025 Reading

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Books Read 2025

Here’s what I read in September and October of this year! I didn’t really read any RPG-related stuff in the past couple of months, at least not cover-to-cover, so this will be the only readings post for these months. 

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Meanwhile, in the Woodshed…

So, for a while there I had a lot going on and wasn’t making it to the practice room, but the place where my son takes piano lessons offered a discount: ₩50,000 a month for family members to use the practice room if there’s a student enrolled with lessons at the music center. That’s way more affordable than the practice rooms used to be, and it takes a lot of the pressure to practice every day (which I felt when access was more expensive), so we jumped at it as soon as I felt up to it, which as it …

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