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Brewing TavCon Diary 1
If you’ve been following my Instagram or checking out this website, you’ll know that my attention for the past month has been focused on planning TavCon, my Sonoma County-based TTRPG con inspired by that most epic of opening lines, “You all meet in a tavern…” So far, the work of planning a game convention hasn’t…
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Dundracon 2026 Review
Dundracon is a weird con for me, because I don’t know in advance which games I’ll get to play. At Dundracon, you don’t sign up for games in advance. Instead, you rank three games in which you want to play in each time block, and then the con randomly draws names by ranking until each…
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Running Wanderhome for the First Time
Last night, I led my first game of Wanderhome. As I’ve written, I discovered Wanderhome this past May at Kublacon and immediately fell in love. Now I’ve also played the game as the Guide (Wanderhome’s word for the DM), and I’m just as pleased with it. Our group arrived in the river town of Weighfare…
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Light in the Wilderness: A Rustic Dark Fantasy Encounter
As you warm your hands over the dying embers of your campfire, you hear a crackling in the trees behind you. You turn, one hand going instinctively to the hilt of your dagger…
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Around the Campfire
The glow of the campfire illuminates the old wanderer’s craggy face. “Do you know the story of the ruined tower toward which you head?” he asks, his eyes reflecting the orange embers. “The true story?”
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Kublacon 2025 Field Report
I spent most of Memorial Day weekend at Kublacon, one of the Bay Area’s biggest gaming conventions. I like going to game conventions because, if I plan things right, I’ll get to try a bunch of games that I’d otherwise never play, and tell stories that I’d otherwise never tell. Unfortunately, I didn’t initially think…
