Playtesting In Bath
I've been meaning to write about this for a bit now, but I'm finally able to get around to it. I traveled to England for the first time earlier this year with two missions: Experience UKGE Playtest Seven-Part Pact, my ambitious wizard game UKGE was a total blast (and Birmingham...
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...