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Ryuutama, first session
When Ryuutama was being Kickstarted and it was sold as “Miyazaki-style fantasy”, I was pretty much sold right away. Hayao Miyazaki is very possibly my favorite director; Laputa City in the Sky is one...
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More Ryuutama pleasantness
We’ve continued playing Ryuutama the past few sessions. It’s been set on a mountainous island with great rocky cliffs and tiny villages hunkered beneath them, next to a big beautiful ocean. No fair...
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80 Days review: Good, but way too frustrating
Like a lot of people, I’ve played the Android game 80 Days a bit lately. I like a lot of the writing, which is generally quite clever. Although based on Verne’s novel, it has a lot of additions, in the...
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Bundle of Holding: Catalyst series
A current Bundle of Holding is a very nice one. This iteration contains the CityBook series, which has long since been one of my favorite supplements for fantasy RPGs. Each book is a really nice...
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Bundle of Holding: Jovian Chronicles
If I ran an SF RPG these days, it’s very likely I would use the Silhouette rules to do it. The rules were pretty influential on Blade & Crown. I really like the “roll multiple D6, keep the highest,...
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Videochat systems
A lot of my gaming these days is long-distance. Many of us are in vastly different time-zones. Trying to make things work in person would be basically impossible. As a result, we’ve come to rely a lot...
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The right tool for the job
In May, I got to go to WisCon again. (Recovering took a while, thus not getting around to posting last month.) There was a lot of great gaming programming, including some very fun and mind-expanding...
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Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality
Everyone and their siblings have already posted about this far and wide, but it’s worth making sure: The Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is a huge bundle of tabletop games, computer...
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Exolore: Nifty worldbuilding with academic rigor
Through my astronomy interests, I found the Youtube channel of Moiya McTier. Moiya’s an astronomer and folklorist (what a great combination of disciplines!). She and a rotating group of subject-matter...
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Itch.io bundle: TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas!
Another bundle I’m a bit late to the party on, but still worth posting about: The Itch.io TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas bundle. A very good cause, with a pretty astonishing amount of games, many of...
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