Month: August 2025

The Magus by Momatoes: A Playthrough

gordsellar0 Comments

Not long ago I received my copy of Momatoes’ game The Magus (“Oracular” edition), which I backed on Kickstarter. It’s a gorgeous print edition put out by Nessun Dove (though it’s also available via itch.io) and seriously, I have very few gaming books I think are more beautiful. Hell, I think I have very few books of any kind that are. It also came with an oracle deck and that, too, is just gorgeous as well as full of tons of interesting, compelling prompts.  The thing is, it’s a solo game, and I have a terrible track record with solo …

Continue Reading

Coming Soon: Mythic Bastionland!

gordsellar0 Comments
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Mythic Bastionland 2025

My turn to run a game has come up with my Sunday night group, and out of the options I offered everyone to choose from, the big winner was Mythic Bastionland. I’d fortunately just read the whole thing, and also had recently gotten a chance to play a one-shot of the game with my other group, GMed by the inimitable Jeremy Tolbert. After that, I felt like I had a pretty good handle on the game and that I could do it justice.  I really admire a few things about the design. For one, it has the same kind of …

Continue Reading

Further Strangeness: Now Available!

gordsellar0 Comments

I’ve created another RPG thingie! It’s an unofficial, unlicensed supplement titled Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland. I got a kick out of reading Mythic Bastionland, Chris McDowall’s new game, of which the majority of the content is two-page spreads laying out the information on Knights (potential PCs or NPCs), Seers (NPC sages), and Myths (which are basically adventure materials). It was fun homebrewing these up, and quite a challenge trying to come up with things McDowall hadn’t quite covered in the original set of 72 of each. Some are a bit close, but I …

Continue Reading