Ponderings on Games

Posts

Jul 9, 2025
Ship of Fools
Nov 24, 2024
Mothership (re)review
Dec 20, 2023
Impossible Landscapes
Sep 14, 2023
Terror Signal
Sep 5, 2023
The OSR Contradiction
Apr 17, 2023
Wildsea
Jan 30, 2023
Heart, the City Beneath
Nov 26, 2021
Mothership (p)review
May 14, 2021
Welcome to Great Arkham
Mar 1, 2021
When is a gold piece not a gold piece?
Dec 17, 2020
Electric Bastionland
Oct 8, 2020
Finishing a campaign
Sep 10, 2020
Arkham Horror the Living Card Game
Jul 10, 2020
Dungeoncrawling by default
Jul 18, 2019
The Facility
Nov 15, 2018
Heretic
Nov 6, 2018
Usherer of the World Yet to Come
Oct 17, 2018
Spire - the game must be played
Oct 2, 2018
Unified Theory of Blades in the Dark
Sep 12, 2018
Blades in the Dark - haunted by greatness
Jun 17, 2018
Especially Nasty - Murder Mollusk
Jun 3, 2018
First Impressions - Gloomhaven
May 13, 2018
Musings on Perfection
Apr 5, 2018
The Magic of Cardboard
Mar 25, 2018
First impressions - Apocalypse World 2e
Mar 15, 2018
An Election in the Time of Apocalypse
Mar 5, 2018
Backup Campaign
Feb 26, 2018
Progression Done Right - Gumballs & Dungeons
Feb 4, 2018
Progression of progression, level 2
Jan 28, 2018
Especially Nasty - Aboleth
Jan 22, 2018
Progression of progression, level 1
Nov 20, 2017
Especially Nasty - Intellect Devourer Delusion
Nov 6, 2017
Musings on Cross Contamination
Oct 15, 2017
Curses in 13th Age
Sep 17, 2017
Especially Nasty - Infested Water Elementals
Sep 12, 2017
cOSRatic Dialogue
Aug 21, 2017
Especially Nasty - Illiphant
Aug 13, 2017
Building up an Adventure
Jul 31, 2017
Especially Nasty - Raggamummy
Jul 24, 2017
First Impressions - Cthulhu Confidential
Jul 16, 2017
Terrain Effects in 13th Age
Jun 28, 2017
Especially Nasty - Rust Monster Eraser
Jun 22, 2017
Musings on rules
Jun 14, 2017
Especially Nasty - Trollflesh Golem
Jun 7, 2017
Why are narrative games so hard to grok?
Jun 1, 2017
Especially Nasty - Wereowlbear
May 24, 2017
Corruption in 13th Age
May 9, 2017
Götterdämmerung
May 2, 2017
Passages & Plunder - New Colonists
Apr 19, 2017
Passages & Plunder - Underworldbuilding
Apr 6, 2017
Passages & Plunder - Vision (or lack thereof)
Mar 27, 2017
Passages & Plunder - Safety of the Surface
Mar 19, 2017
Passages & Plunder - Lost in the Dark
Jan 20, 2017
Running an RPG for kids
May 10, 2016
Sunless Fate 3
May 2, 2016
Sunless Fate 2
Apr 26, 2016
Sunless Fate
Feb 4, 2016
Atomic Robo Skill Calculator
Feb 1, 2016
Boss Decay
Jul 29, 2015
First Impressions: Goblin Quest
Apr 17, 2015
Musings on the Apocalypse
Mar 23, 2015
Musings on Hit Points
Dec 25, 2014
First Impressions: Fate Core
Nov 2, 2014
Paradigms of Play
Dec 2, 2013
Settings, Systems and Stories
Nov 3, 2013
Passages & Plunder 1 - Welcome to the Underworld
Oct 28, 2013
The Peculiar Case of the Owlbear in 13th Age
Oct 16, 2013
First Impressions: 13th Age
Sep 22, 2013
First Impressions: Mythender
Sep 10, 2013
Dancing in the Flames
Sep 3, 2013
Torching the Tavern
Jul 4, 2013
First Impressions: tremulus
Jun 3, 2013
First Impressions: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Apr 15, 2013
Don't Rest Your Head (If You Want Cake)
Apr 4, 2013
Post-D&D Rehabilitation
Mar 18, 2013
No such thing as D&D
Feb 6, 2013
Directed
Jan 27, 2013
Goblin Dice
Jan 14, 2013
Retrospective on D&D 4e, part 2
Dec 24, 2012
Retrospective on D&D 4e, part 1
Dec 18, 2012
Odds & Ends
Dec 10, 2012
Psychodrama on the battlemat
Oct 24, 2012
DramaSystem - more drama than system
Aug 16, 2012
Next iteration
Jun 17, 2012
Supernatural
Jun 5, 2012
A Fistful of Gold Pieces
May 27, 2012
Next: on a serious note
May 25, 2012
Notes on D&D Next Playtest
Apr 27, 2012
Inconsequential Combat
Apr 3, 2012
Dragon Tipping
Mar 25, 2012
4eLite
Mar 17, 2012
Duty is Eternal
Mar 2, 2012
Marvelous initiative
Feb 28, 2012
Patient Two
Feb 24, 2012
Patient One
Feb 13, 2012
Tactful tactics
Feb 5, 2012
Self-defeating strategy
Dec 13, 2011
The unbearable inconsequentialness of combat
Sep 16, 2011
Practical Applications of Power
Sep 12, 2011
Power vs Levels
Sep 7, 2011
Collision of Perfect Spheres
Sep 1, 2011
I kick sand in his face!
Aug 29, 2011
Perfectly Spherical Adventurers in Vacuum
Jun 19, 2011
Unwieldy Contraption
Apr 8, 2011
Anathema
Apr 4, 2011
Reality Breakdown
Mar 25, 2011
Are you sure?
Mar 18, 2011
DnD4e Do-Over
Mar 12, 2011
Death and Danger in D&D
Nov 20, 2009
But are we achieving anything?
Nov 15, 2009
Level up! Down?.. Sideways!
Oct 22, 2009
Vignettes