Author: gordsellar

Isle of Joy Nominated for an Ennie

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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! 

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Books Read: May–June 2025

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This entry is part 3 of 3 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).  …

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Something Tookish! Interview

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Recently, I’ve been corresponding with the friendly and affable Pat Eyler, who reached out to me out of curiosity regarding my Brindlewood Bay hack, Something Tookish! (See here if you don’t know what I’m going on about here.) Anyway, Eyler interviewed me about the game, my background in gaming, and what I learned hacking the game together. Here’s the interview! 

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Playing Jordan Palmer’s “Our God Is Dead”

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The other day, with a group of three other people, I got a chance to play Jordan Palmer’s “Our God is Dead,” which, as the game’s itch.io page explains, is “a comedy role-playing game about clerics hiding the fact that their god has died just before a celebration in their god’s honor.” Players play the clerics, but in the process of play, they build out not just the clerics but also the god, the community, and so on… while having to desperately struggle to prevent others from catching on to the horrible truth: that the deity they venerate is dead.  …

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