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Further Strangeness: Now Available!

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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 …

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Circe’s Grin and the Appx. N Jam

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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 …

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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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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 9: Other “General” Supplements

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This entry is part 9 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG book line. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts. If you’re new to the series, I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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