But How Is AI At Yar's Revenge?
In case you missed the news, someone pitted the general-purpose AI software ChatGPT against the Atari 2600 version of chess (Atari Chess, as the 1977 cartridge is known). Spoiler alert: ChatGPT lost badly, on the "beginner" level of difficulty. The original post on LinkedIn has more details. Personally, I like...
Welcome To The Bobiverse
Beyond a doubt, this is my favorite "discovered in 2025" series. The Bobiverse books, by Dennis E. Taylor, chronicle the adventures of one Robert Johansson. He was cryonically suspended, murdered and uploaded by a Christofascist future government, and installed as the enslaved brain of a space probe designed to do the...
Last Train To Bremen Backerkit
Last Train To Bremen is available now on Backerkit! It is a tragedy for a doomed quartet: a storytelling game about four arrogant musicians who made a deal with the Devil that blew up in their faces. Now they're stuck in a boxcar, fleeing from their cursed contract, and there's...
I Am The Laziest Die Roller
My gaming tables tend to be as organized as my computer desk . . . which is to say, "Completely not organized, oh help, I just pulled a load-bearing pencil and now I'm buried." As a result, I don't necessarily have the dice I need at my fingertips. But I'm...
A Bundle Of Goodness For A Good Cause
If you've perused high-quality RPG books in the gaming biz in the past couple of decades, you've likely run across Owen K.C. Stephens (who, among a jillion other credits in the gaming realm, had an ongoing column – Icosahedron Adventures – that's part of the Pyramid Volume 2 HTML Archive)....
The Best _____ You'll _____ This Week
I've previously recommended online daily puzzle games Align and Raddle. Here's another one that started not too long ago, for more trivia-minded folks: Revealed. Revealed is from Encyclopedia Britannica, and it's pretty ingenious: It pulls articles from the Britannica site, but removes most of the nouns, verbs, and other details...
Wanderhome Now On Pre-Order
Incredibly excited to announce that Wanderhome is now available for pre-order on Warehouse 23! Five years ago, Ruby and I created Wanderhome, a pastoral fantasy game that focuses on characters and relationships over combat, and while my current style of game design is very different from that, it's still something I'm incredibly...
Munchkin Apocalypse At LibertyCon
SJ, Irene, and I are were at LibertyCon over the weekend (6/20-22). It's an awesome convention, and you should go sometime if you possibly can. One of the events was a multi-round Munchkin tournament, with the championship round being against Steve. They played Munchkin Apocalypse, which I personally hadn't seen...