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Design Diary: The Haunting of Dresden Manor #001
I’ve started a playtest draft of my next project, a gothic mystery scenario called The Haunting of Dresden Manor. I’m excited by this project because I believe that it pushes the boundaries of mystery scenario design in TTRPGs, because it will simultaneously be: If you’ve ever tried to run a proper investgative mystery scenario, you’ll…
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Game Review: Dungeons & Kittens
(In case anyone is wondering, I received no compensation for this post. I just played this game, enjoyed it, and wanted to tell y’all about it!) Last weekend, one of the players in my regular 5e Vecna: Eve of Ruin campaign (heavily modded, of course) was missing. Since we’re near the climax of the story,…
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Mystery Advice from a Master: Raymond Chandler
To help get me in the mindset for my new project, a mystery scenario called The Haunting the Dresden Manor, I spent a few days this month with one of the masters of the genre: Raymond Chandler, and specifically The Annotated Big Sleep, edited by Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson, and my esteemed colleague Anthony Rizzuto.…
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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…
