This supplement can’t quite focus itself: As a sourcebook it tries to cover too much. As an adventure it doesn’t cover enough. Originally Published March 14th, 2002 Slavers was published in 2000 as…

In 2024 I started making a star system generator that uses the Traveller5 (T5) rules. I originally wanted to make a Star Frontiers (SF) inspired setting using the Star Without Numbers RPG (SWN). I…

Session 322 was played on 3/14/26 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)…

Back in April we looked at Sam & Max Hit the Road, the first game featuring Steve Purcell's crime fighting comic strip duo. Tasked with finding an escaped bigfoot from the circus, Sam & Max…

Last night I played my first full game of 11 th edition 40k. It was only 1000 points, but it counts! I played Black Templars, and my brother played Chaos Space Marines. The missions meant that he had…

Why the Steam Deck is the best handheld I've ever owned: PSP emulation with RetroDeck and streaming my Xbox through Greenlight, all because it's an open Linux device.

Welcome to Gerrymandle! Draw electoral district lines to win more seats than your opponents and win the election! Win the election for purple. Draw 5 districts of 6 populated tiles so that they win…

I've had Operation Unfathomable [OU] on the shelf for a number of years. In our last session my players, desperate for cash, decided the advert of 20k for recovering a "null rod" on behalf of the mad…

I watched some World Cup soccer.

Sometimes I stumble upon a game and fall in love with the idea of it so hard I have to …

In this episode I talk about the Commodore phone (again), the PolyGame Master (again), the weather, Richard Garriott acquiring the copyright to Ultima from EA, the Steam Machine finally launching,…

In 2021, separated by thousands of kilometers, and still dealing with travel difficulties from COVID, my partners and I decided to create a play by post RPG game as a way to stay connected. For me it…

there's a software emulation for everything

More reconsiderations posts are in the offing, probably next week, but, as has been the case since the end of April , I remain hard at work on completing the first draft of the upcoming second…

I use Linux, specifically NixOS, for the majority of my gaming, so I wanted to compile a list of references for anyone interested in replicating my setup.

If you tell your players they're in a murder mystery, but the murder doesn't occur until halfway through the session, you're going to have some problems. I ran Slow Sleigh the other night and it…

Because dream it and you can certainly die or almost die trying to make it happen, Youtube No Bitrate challenged himself to build a game-accurate coconut shooter from Donkey Kong 64. The first, more…

The build of Ambermoon.net for Ambermoon has been updated to version v1.13.6 of the project

The build of Quetoo for Quetoo has been updated to version v1.0.54 of the project

We are now officially in beta on Steam! Not only are doing the usual testing on the game engine, but we also need to test gameplay, player versus player real-time play, and player versus AI. Perhaps…

Which players at the 2026 FIFA World Cup attracted the most online attention? Wikipedia page views reflect active public curiosity: people do not simply see a player’s name in a social media feed…

I played the demo for an upcoming game called Silver Pines on Tuesday and haven't been able to stop thinking about it, so I felt the need to get down some of the thoughts that are kind of bursting…

I’ve talked about how This Means War strives to simulate a believable (but surprising) war. But now I want to talk about the other half of the game: the character-side. The idea all along was…

Hi everyone! This is just a reminder that I’ll be at TooManyGames this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, I’ll have a panel at 5PM, and then a signing at 6PM. On Sunday,…

The shittiest people in the world hate Zohran Mamdani and their second Mamdani meltdown will make the first seem only a hissy fit, Jeff types as he sits in the rental at the northern tip of…

Yep. I’m still working on the game. Feels kinda dumb posting this same thing over and over, but that’s the reality. I know it’s taking a long time. A big part of that is that I am…

I just finished the game Control , and I think it's a solid 6 or 7/10 game, 1 but there's one aspect of the game that really fascinates me, which is the way that the game portrays otherworlds. One…

Ahead of September launch. Aion 2 is set for a worldwide release in September 2026 and we’re set on getting a handful of videos from NCSoft addressing the game, its features, and the future…

I bet you've seen notes in dungeon keys that say something like: The murals depict an ibis-headed god handing out the tools of writings to grateful humans. (Clerics know that this is represents…

Today's interview is with xtinak, (who also uses the handle msquixotic). She blogs at Ms. Quixotic Talks About Games and has an itch page at xtinak.itch.io/ Her WIP region, the White Wastes , has (I…

Kittens Game is an incremental game that has very few narrative sentences presented in the game. However, it tells a very rich story in its own unique way through the interaction with the player.

Let’s talk about Personal Calendar. Earlier this month, Valve raised the requirements to appear in Popular Upcoming from 7,000-ish wishlists to somewhere around 100,000 wishlists.  In Valve’s…

The definition of cool.

The World Cup is a genuine, enormous attention shock — Wikipedia traffic spikes eightfold during the final. Yet a new working paper finds the World Cup stock market effect barely registers in the…

i'm going to write a lot of words about a game i made

Featuring unhinged remixes of the Star Trek theme, Pinball Wizard, and the 1812 Overture.

In which Lady Hartgrieve continues her journey into the Gardens of Ynn

You walk out of Ironhook in the suit you got arrested in, your old crew is spread hither and yon all over Doskvol's factions. Your starting situation is a Crew sheet. The thing you know walking out…

This illuminating interview with graphic designer Kenichi Nemoto covers the conception and design of the Sega Saturn cult classic Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru. The post Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru –…

Introducing AT Mot, a small ATProto experiment, and a daily word game. Give it a try!

maisymaze:the vague, fuzzy memory of klonoa

I really used to think the Game Boy peaked at Pokemon. As a kid, I even owned The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, but I had no idea how wrong I was, because I never even played it long enough to…

Literal minutes before I sat down to write this review, my daughters ran into the room to ask where their rubber snake had gone. When I professed ignorance, they scrambled from the room while hissing…

Right, so the thing about the ECS pattern is that it makes it straightforward and concise to do a bunch of the really nasty video game shit: Intrusive and cross-cutting systems that affect a lot of…

Perhaps something different to try from the big digital games capitalism fest?

With 50odd sessions under the belt my Glimmermark campaign enters the third year. Which is maybe not the longest roleplaying campaign I ever had, but certainly one with the most individual sessions.…

Replacing humans with guns with creatures/monsters/messed up dudes and robots.

This past month, Final Fantasy XIV has taken up a large amount of my free time, due to the release of the new raid Dancing Mad (Ultimate). In this blog post, I kind of want to ramble a little bit…

Nim is a pure strategy game for two players. On each turn, players remove an option until finally no choice remains. Game options might include: How many stones to take from a pile. Which position to…