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Posts about RPGs and other games.

Buzz and Fly: A Bee Game

October 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Buzz and Fly is now available! It’s a Lasers & Feelings hack where you play bees in a beehive. I started writing it June 28, 2020 and finished on October 30, 2020.

Posted in Game Design, Personal, Writing

D&D Chase Sequences

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020

Chase rules in D&D need a lot of work to make them usable.

Posted in Game DesignTagged adventurers_league, dnd

Using Google Fonts in Roll20 Character Sheets

February 21, 2020May 7, 2020
Web Fonts in Roll20

Short video and how-to (in text) for using Google webfonts when making Roll20 character sheets.

Posted in Gaming, VideosTagged roll20

D&D Stranger Things Starter Set: Review and DM Prep Notes (Spoilers)

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019

(Full article contains spoilers!) I bought the D&D Stranger Things Starter Set, and I was all kinds of excited to run it. I read through it a few times, thought “hmmm…” about some of the choices, but overall it reads like a fairly straightforward adventure.

Posted in Gaming

Dead Friend: A review of light necromancy

March 3, 2018

On Thursday evening, Toby and I got together to play Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy. This is a Pay What You Want game on DriveThruRPG. I discovered it through chance– I think one of the recommendation sidebars popped it up. I had never heard of it before, which is unusual for me. Most of […]

Posted in GamingTagged dead_friend, storytelling

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