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Some Thoughts on (Scandinavian) Horror
I’m running a game of Vaesen at Kublacon this month, so I’m thinking a lot about horror RPGs right now. And, while on a bit of medically-enforced R&R this past week, I finally got around to playing Bramble: The Mountain King, which I snagged a while back based on some random review, and it is…
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Lobocon 2024 Field Report
This past Saturday, Legends of the Wandering Crows was one of three RPGs demoed at Lobocon 2024. (Another one was Tarotweaver, a coming-soon game created by my colleague and friend Jared Mullicane. I didn’t get to play it, since I was running my own games; but I heard later on from playtesters that it was…
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Failing Forward
This past weekend, I took my prototype game, Legends of the Wandering Crows, to ConQuest Sac’s Protospiel to get some playtest feedback. I was lucky that I got a lot of feedback, and it was… constructive. The playtesters had a lot of positive things to say about the game, but they had more constructive things…
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Some Thoughts on Caves
Since the 2024 solar eclipse is nearly upon us, the Boss and I felt it was high time to visit family in Texas. While here, we also took the kids (and, let’s be honest, ourselves) to the conveniently located Inner Space Cavern in Georgetown, TX. The 1-hour “Adventure” walking tour was both fun and educational,…
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Serious Fun: Disaster Prep and RPGs
Today, I got the opportunity to apply my role-playing skills at work. By day, I’m a newly-minted member of my employer’s Emergency Operations Committee (EOC). As part of my orientation to the committee, other committee members and I “played” a tabletop disaster simulation, practicing the skills that we’ll need in case a real emergency occurs.…
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Game on!
Yep, since I last wrote on this blog, I playtested a bunch of puzzles, did a bunch of improv, asked a bunch of gamers about their frustrations, and ultimately… designed my own prototype RPG at Dundracon 2024! I’m very excited about it, since I think it combines the narrative freedom of D&D with the mechanical…