How marginalized voices, Indonesian cultural concepts like Gotong Royong, and the psychological magic of 'Bleed' can rescue your tabletop campaigns from repetitive storytelling.

a MarkoftheOdd TTRPG about enjoying Childhood

So, I’ve just released the second beta of my Millénaire Magics modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1. This is by far the most hours I’ve put into a personal project, what with the multiple custom…

A short write-up about Atlas at War, a turn-based conquest game where the board is not drawn by hand but built from real country borders returned by the MapJSON API.

Saving game data is easy. Making your save code survive every kind of hardware failure is not. A lot of these issues will never show up during testing, but if your game reaches a wide audience with…

Cashflow 101 is the board game that sold a generation of people on the idea that the janitor retires before the doctor. Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad lesson, turned into cardboard: buy assets,…

Ahhh... There she blows! Eggnob is running on the Nintendo Switch! And the port was incredibly simple, once I worked out how to get access to the SDL3 Switch Sku. (Derp) Massive thanks to Ryan and co…

The GTA leak is due to poor OPSEC on the part of RockStar India.

Apparently today is the worst possible day to post about Zork the text adventure? See articles about Duskbloods if you don't follow FromSoftware news, which, to be clear, I don't. Spoiler:…

Literally nowhere, including the in-game profiles and stuff, have the note about Tanis...except for one specific wiki, so her sharing vision with her snakes is based on roughly nothing. However, it…

Money for Girls: Amortized comes out August 24. Mark your calendars. Wishlist!! ✦ An informative post about the game. another day working at the cancer’s mom museum… ✦ FANART agent of…

Pirates was something different. It's hard to pin it down to a genre even today, but it certainly wasn't like previous Meier titles—even though it's the first game to be called Sid Meier's Something…

This isn't an official NERDstats post. Those will start up again after the UAB game. This is just gonna be a quick peek at the final preseason SP+ that came out last week. I listened to a…

GENKI MANTA: Beyond the Pro Controller "A deeply tunable controller with MantaOS built in, analog Pulse Buttons, adjustable TMR sticks, TriStage Triggers and Maglev Haptics." That's a whole lot of…

This being the 136th anniversary of the birth of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, I thought it the perfect opportunity to write another installment in my increasingly irregular Reconsiderations series. I…

Cracking (patching) a Steam game comes down to two approaches: use Unsteam when you want online play among patched copies, GBE Fork when single-player or LAN is enough. If the game connects through…

Previously: 30 NES/Famicom Games I finished as a kid, my list of completed console games from around 2002 Intro This is yet another entry in my (years/decades-long) attempt to chronicle the entirety…

From the human perspective, there is basically an infinite amount of worthwhile art in the world. This is both good and bad. It's good because there's always something to choose from. It's bad…

Fatigue is cleared at a rate of 1 point for each Prolonged Rest taken in a “sheltered and safe refuge.” This requirement, however, has raised a lot of questions: Does it have to be their…

Session 326 was played on 4/19/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC)…

"I endeavor to have a life that has me show up at a mausoleum one day with a flashlight and a bag of tools." The post The Dark Secret of Weatherend (1984) appeared first on Vintage RPG.

Video of the Bomberman Online Game Night on August 19th, 2026. The post Game Night Highlights: Bomberman Online 8/19/2026 appeared first on Dreamcast Live.

Welcome to ✨The Joy Club Way✨, where we explore—together—ways to be more free and fully alive in the world. I’ve been playing Pokémon Legends on at the recommendation of my video gamer kids. It’s a…

It’s a lot; quite a heck of a lot

You are DEAD. Yet, your weasley black soul lingers on. Find out what happens to the unfortunate crew who find themselves lost to Davy Jones’ Locker!

The latest addition to my 18xx collection is 18RoyalGorge: The Rails of Fremont County and the Royal Gorge Wars. I bumped into this on BGG, I think, and the game sounded good enough so I bought a…

The Disco Elysium-likes have arrived: heavy narrative with meaningful choices, dice rolling, and a strange title. The zombified publisher of Disco just released Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, and back…

A year ago, I wrote about the four Anbernic handhelds built around an Allwinner H700 system on a chip I had purchased over a period of time. Two of those were heavily-inspired by two of my favorite…

The promise of the new 2026 Necromunda edition is that if we had a gang, it would be valid within the new rules. So I wanted to put that to the test because I have a fair number of gangs. Would my…

Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Swashbuckler (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh), Xaldun of Portage Town, Swordsman (roguewithwhimsy)…

How I used GPT-5.6 Daybreak Blue to find an on-demand NetHack 5.0 crash, duplicate items, farm krakens, and get the high score on NAO.

Elemental: Dev Journal - Late Game OptimizationWe are in the exciting world of late game optimization. Got a saved game that was on turn 800. Anyone getting to that point in any 4X strategy game has…

...to make up a Silver Ball Century.

This man talked so fast, it was hard to get a non-blurry image of him - but here he is! Doesn't he look familiar? Possibly....possibly not, depending on if you saw this movie... As always, if you are…

A port is not simply “the same game in another engine” or “just an emulator”. It is a long series of decisions about what to do with the original content (art, code and audio) to create a new version…

New wonder: The Parthenon Unlocked by Theology +3 culture per turn in the city where it is built The city’s borders immediately expand one level when construction completes Your story so far…

New AI difficulty: Brutal, between Hard and Deity The AI improvements in this release made every difficulty play sharper, so the old Hard tuning now lives at Brutal: bonus yields, a free starting…

[ Written by our DM, not Jay. ] DISCLAIMER: I'm doing this entirely from memory, so there's a good chance I'll miss stuff. If I spell anything wrong, misstate a detail of the adventure, or anything…

For the past few years I’ve been working on reverse engineering and remaking an almost 40 year old DOS game. Despite its age, I’m often surprised by the complexity and little tricks the game used,…

Disgaea Mayhem is a Musou styled spin-off based on the Disgaea series. It focuses on the mercenary who goes by the alias N.A when he works for Princess Tashelle from the Netherrealm Super Duper.…

Resonant Arc Resonant Arc create the gaming podcast/YouTube series State Of The Arc. While they do episodes on various topics, the main focus of the series is long-form book-club style analysis of…

Rambling about expo dumping and throwing up all over your players

I recently purchased Cy_Borg, and started thinking about implementing a faction turn procedure to simulate the game’s 14 economically but evocatively described megacorps. Since Cy_Borg has no built…

Over the past couple months I finished some RPGs, and these are two I feel like talking about. I don't…

This is a medium-to-large sized patch, though the majority of its gameplay changes are individually not that significant. This patch is especially unique in that a large portion of its gameplay…

A first-person game needs a slightly different approach to mouse input than a typical desktop application. Normally, the mouse cursor moves around the screen. In a first-person game, however, we…

This post is about a new simulation game I've written to go with my book Confluence. The game is about making sense of emergent patterns and intentional plans.

This post is, basically, a public service. I’ve seen this question numerous times: how ought the progression of Magic Dice work if you’re running a game using B/X, OD&D, or any of the myriad…

it gets like the second icon on the title screen where you see all the bosses you've beat.