July 2025 – gordsellar.com

Digimon Live Concert (Encore Performance)

July 29th, 2025gordsellar0 Comments

My son is a huge fan of the Japanese anime series Digimon—like, big enough of a fan that when I said, “It’s kind of like Pokémon, right?”I got an earful about how no, it’s not at all like Pokémon. This is unusual for a kid his age: none of his friends are into Digimon at all, and, as I discovered for myself last weekend, most of Korea’s Digimon fandom is much older than him. The event that established this fact for me was a concert I took our son to: As you can guess from the poster, it was a performance …

Circe’s Grin and the Appx. N Jam

July 23rd, 2025gordsellar0 Comments

So, over the weekend while I was waiting for my summer class’s students to turn in their final writing projects, I put together my entry for the Appx. N Jam. If you’re not on itch.io, you’re probably unfamiliar with this “game jam” concept: basically, someone suggests a themed creative project and people can join it and submit their own take on it. Some have prizes (like the Appx. N Jam does), some don’t. Come to think of it, if you’re not deep into D&D lore, you might also not know about Appendix N, to which the jam’s name refers. But …

Isle of Joy Nominated for an Ennie

July 12th, 2025gordsellar2 Comments

So, a few days ago Ahimsa Kerp (of Knight Owl Publishing) let me know that my RPG book Isle of Joy has been nominated for an Ennie Award in the Best Adventure—Long Form category. (Ahimsa and Wind Lothamer were the book’s wonderful publishers.) It’s very flattering and exciting, and our book is in good company with a lot of really spectacular stuff on the awards nomination list! Anyway, if you’re interested in voting, this is the place to do it! Oh, and Knight Owl is in the running for Best Publisher, by the way. They deserve a vote too!

Books Read: May–June 2025

July 5th, 2025gordsellar0 Comments

This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Books Read 2025

Here’s everything everything I read in May and June of 2025. It’s not much: I blame my heavy workload along with the fact that my ancient Kindle died somewhere in there—and the replacement I got happens not to have a backlight, which is annoying since I usually read the Kindle at night. Besides all that, I also spent a chunk of May quite ill from some medications I was on, and we were also busy with editing meetings on a book-length translation of our own (which we edited by committee, which can be great, but takes a lot of time). …

New! South Korean SF author Djuna's Not Yet Gods in a new English translation by Jihyun Park and me, coming soon (2026) from Kaya Press. Click here to visit the Kaya webpage for the book and order it from the publisher, or get it on Amazon (in the US) or at Aladin (in Korea)!

New! Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland is an unofficial and unlicensed supplement for Chris McDowall's wonderful new game, and my entry for the Mythic Bastionland Game Jam. Available for free over on my itch.io webpage.

New! Circe's Grin is a system-agnostic old-school RPG adventure, and my entry for the Appx. N 2025 game jam. Available for free (for now) on my itch.io webpage.

New from Knight Owl Publishing: Isle of Joy is a harrowing old-school adventure on a mysterious island full of secrets and stories. Order a copy on Knight Owl's website.

Something Tookish! is a Brindlewood Bay RPG hack for those who want to solve mundane, cozy mysteries in a halfling village. With art by Justin Howe! Get your copy on itch.io!

Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.

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