I recently posted about the fiction and nonfiction I red in July/August here. That’s only half the story, though: I also tore through a bunch of RPG books this past couple of months—mostly at the end of June and going into August—and that’s what I’m going to discuss in this post. (I’ve split this the two posts up because I know some people are more interested in reading about RPG books, and some aren’t at all.)
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 …