Returns and Recoveries

So, I was in Canada with our son for about ten days from the end of July until early August. A lot happened, and it was nice to see my sisters and their families, who gave us a warm welcome, as well as my friend Ian (who drove up to Vancouver to see us). It was also nice to properly give our son a little experience of Canada. We did a lot of things: aside from family time, which was most of our time in Saskatoon,  we visited the Forestry Farm and did some shopping in Saskatoon, played mini-golf and …

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Readings, May/June 2026

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Readings 2026

May and June of 2026 were pretty good for reading! I we finished up some of those translations projects I mentioned last month, and though more have come in, with a lot more free time available I was able to finally do some serious reading! I remain stalled out on reading Sir Thomas Malory’s Complete Works (edited by Eugène Vinaver), which is funny since the RPG I was reading it for inspiration for has played out and ended. Even so, I’m trying to get back into it, one chunk at a time. In the meantime, below the cut I’ve only …

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Our Mythic Bastionland Wrap-Up: Behind the Scenes

This entry is part 25 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

If you’re just joining us, you’ll probably want to go back to the first post in this series. Otherwise, read on! This post contains an accumulated set of notes about what was going on behind the scenes during the campaign we’ve just wrapped up. I have no idea who, if anyone, will be interested in a behind-the scenes like this, but I took notes over the week following each session, mostly for my own benefit, and figured I might as well share them along with my writeups of each session’s events. 

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 22 and Epilogue

This entry is part 24 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our twenty-second (and, for this campaign, final, or at least final-for-now) session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played this past 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. This was a climactic final session, and I’m going to try do it justice below, as I’m writing this over the following couple of days. A lot happened (this is the longest post I’ve done so far in …

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Between Sessions 21 and 22: The Feast

This entry is part 23 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

This post is a little different from the rest of this series. For one thing, it details some stuff that happens between sessions of our game. Our next session is the last possible one for this season of Mythic Bastionland, so I’m kind of trying to get to the climax, but we didn’t have enough time in the last session for proper setup of that. Queen Borran Gladsmere met the Knights, and promised them a feast that evening, but we didn’t get to play through it, which is perhaps for the best. Still, the feast does happen, and the Knights …

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 21

This entry is part 22 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our twenty-first session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played this past weekend. 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. I am writing this a few days after the session, as I’ve had a busy week.Take as given I probably missed a couple of important details, but I’ll try edit this if anyone reminds me of them.  Oh, and for the first time, our Knights are interacting …

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Readings, March/April 2026

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Readings 2026

March and April of 2026 were a little rough for reading. The ol’ work schedule is basically flat-out insane, and a lot of my spare time goes into translation work, so the fact that our son’s back in school again has helped less than I thought it might. (We lost a teacher at work and, well, nobody’s hiring anyone these days, so I’m teaching a lot more hours than I’m actually supposed to be.) Whew. Anyway… I’m still off-and-on reading some of the same things I mentioned last time, like: Sir Thomas Malory’s Complete Works edited by Eugène Vinaver. Max …

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 20

This entry is part 21 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our twentieth session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played this past weekend. 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. I am writing this a a number of days after the session, due to being busy this past week. Hopefully I can dredge up the gist of what happened from my fading memories. 

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 19

This entry is part 20 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our nineteenth session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played this past weekend. 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. I wrote this a few days after the session, but hopefully my memory held out sufficiently.  

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 18

This entry is part 19 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our eighteenth 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. I wrote this a few days after the session, but hopefully my memory held out sufficiently.  The session was once again a bit short due to one player’s family commitments:

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