Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 10

This entry is part 10 of 11 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our ninth session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played last night. If you’re just joining us, I’d recommend starting at the first session and reading forward from there. It’s all organized in a series, so it should be easy to find the posts that follow the first.    Today’s post was aided by some session notes, so hopefully I won’t miss anything important.  Trigger Warning: Our first player character death! (Don’t worry, the player had made a new PC during the session.) 

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 9

This entry is part 10 of 11 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our ninth session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played last night. If you’re just joining us, I’d recommend starting at the first session and reading forward from there. It’s all organized in a series, so it should be easy to find the posts that follow the first.    Today’s post was aided by some session notes, so hopefully I won’t miss anything important. 

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 8

This entry is part 9 of 11 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our eighth session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played last Sunday night. If you’re just joining us, I’d recommend starting at the first session and reading forward from there. It’s all organized in a series, so it should be easy to find the posts that follow the first.    Today’s post was from memory, so hopefully there aren’t any big gaps in the action!

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Best Reading of 2025

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

I’m running a bit behind on this, mostly because I’m teaching a winter course at work and those are always pretty time-intensive, but I thought I’d briefly discuss my favorite reads from last year, out of everything I read this year (pictured above, and see also here). I’m including fiction, poetry, and graphic novels (in that order). No nonfiction, but basically just because none really made the cut. No RPG books—most of those were reviewed in the same post, so there’s no reason to go over it all over again.   In no particular order, here were my favorite reads from …

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Some Recent and Not-So-Recent Listening (Podcast Edition)

My wife asked me to recommend some podcasts to her, so I made a list from some of the podcasts I currently enjoy, or have enjoyed in the past. It’s not exhaustive: there’s plenty I used to listen to that either I don’t remember anymore, or that have gone downhill. Also, I don’t listen to podcasts as much as I used to—my drive commuting to work is more often filled with music or silence and my own thoughts these days. But this is what I put on that list of things for me wife check out.  Heavyweight: A delightfully awkward …

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