you come to me on the day of the release of my game I. Dear Reader So a very long time ago, in the distant mists of 2021, I played a game of Crash//Cart and have been thinking about a deck of playing cards as the engine of game ever since. That game started me…

Another issue packed with lots of games, videos, links and more. I. Dear Reader, Welcome to the bimonthly round-up of interesting games released on itch.io. I find these games through the form linked below (where readers can submit their own games) or I just stumble across on twitter or while browsing itch (which I do,…

Some books I’ve been reading: Play Unsafe, Stealing Cthulhu, Age of Ravens, Knutepunkt, The Ultimate RPG Guide & more. I. Dear Reader, I’m always trying to level up my RPG knowledge and this has led me to look for books about RPGs. And there don’t seem to be that many! There are some academic books…

I. Dear Reader, Travels continue and this week is also just links, links, links! We’ll hopefully be back to more writing and such from next time. Yours link, Thomas II. Media of the Week Recently stumbled on this podcast with Jon Peterson about Alarums and Excursions, one of the first zines (APA) about roleplaying that…

Chorus: Links for the link god! I. Dear Reader, Travelling so just a quick announcement that the Bundle of Holding has renewed its sponsorship and I’m very thankful that our relationship continues! I’ve got some exciting interviews lined up with the Yes Indie’d podcast as well, looking forward to sharing them soon! Yours in a…

here we go again: grasping meaning from the maw of chaos I. Dear Reader, So let’s talk about the term “cinematic” when it comes to roleplaying games. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot and I’m not sure I’ve read someone actually explaining what they mean by that. So I’m going to try…

I. Dear Reader, It’s Issue 150! The newsletter is almost three years old! Even a goal as humble as surviving for three years is only possible because of the support of dozens and dozens of people. I can’t name you all but if the newsletter continues to exist, it’s because of your help! Thank you!…

Just the links this week! I. Dear Reader, This week got away for me so no article at the top – but I’ll see you all next week with something good. Enjoy the links and have a good week! Cheers, Thomas II. Media of the Week Love to see this kind of stuff from big…

Someone is going to have to decide if purple is cool or not. I. Dear Reader, One of the big divides I see in RPGs is between folks who like their games to have strong opinions or not. If you don’t like opinionated games, it might be because you see it as overly formal or…

I think matrices and graphs might be getting over-represented on this newsletter. I. Dear Reader, I talk about playstyles a lot. Or at least, I talk about playstyles a lot more than the average. I’m always saying “trad”, “storygame”, “OSR”, etc – they’re completely imperfect labels, for sure. But for me, I prefer that imperfection…