This month, I’m hosting the RPG Blog Carnival, with the topic of weather. I was inspired by the old slogan “April Showers Bring May Flowers,” but also by the wonderful weather I get living in the American Southwest. Last night it rained, and the smell of rain on pavement (petrichlor) was downright magical as I […]
A Video Game Review for #nerdy9th
For #nerdy9th, I’m going to talk about my recent video game obsession! As you may know, I am not much of a video gamer. I tend to get “hooked” and obsess over games for a few months before dropping them. I played the Sims online last year for about 6 months. I play Minecraft, but […]
December 2015 Books and Games
Books #31: Act of God by Jill Ciment (f) #32: Out of Sorts by Aurelie Valognes (f) #33: The Grinding by Matt Dinniman (m) – I really liked Dinniman’s book The Shivered Sky, but I was disappointed in The Grinding. As a second book (they are not a series), it’s good enough, but it just […]
November 2015: Books and Games
Books: #29: Life and Other Near-Death Experiences by Camille Pagan #30: Parasite by Mira Grant Games: #78: Threadbare #79: Family Band #80: Crazy 8s #81: Clock Work Gnomes #82: Bluebeard’s Bride #83: Amazing Stick #84: Chinese Menu #85: Mythic Mortals #86: Mythic Mortals (different game) #87: Fall of Magic
Metatopia 2015: Experiences and brain-dump
There were a lot of experiences– both amazing and not-so-amazing– at my first Metatopia last weekend, where I brought Threadbare to playtest among strangers and other professionals. Totally not intimidating, right? I went with my friend Toby, and we practiced the buddy system quite a bit all weekend. This meant I was less likely to […]