I. Dear Reader, I didn’t find time this week to finish reading and writing about a|state so it’s a brief interlude in our series about cities. I thought with most of the year over, it might be a good time for a gaming wrap-up. Here are all the games I played in 2022 with elevator…

And help me pick the next setting to review by voting! I. Dear Reader, We continue our series, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities”, where we look at urban settings in TTRPGs. To learn more, read the introduction post. Previously, we looked at Doskvol, Spire, and Endon. Infinigrad is the creation of…

the indie RPG newsletter continues the journey from city to city I. Dear Reader, We continue our series, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities”, where we look at urban settings in TTRPGs. To learn more, read the introduction post. Previously, we looked at Doskvol and Spire. Today, we look at Endon from…

I. Dear Reader, We continue our series, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities”, where we look at cities in TTRPGs. To learn more, read the introduction post. Previously, we looked at Doskvol (from Blades in the Dark). Today, we look at Spire from Spire: The City Must Fall, written by Grant Howitt…

First edition of my new series, What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities. I. Dear Reader, Welcome to the first edition of my new series, What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities. If you want to know more about what I’m doing here, you can read the introduction post. You all…

Should’ve been Issue 666 but hey, what can you do. I. Dear Reader, Turns out if you playtest a lot of games, you can write about them when they go on Kickstarter! It’s pretty neat! Okay, so Apocalypse Keys is the new PbtA game about monsters fighting the apocalypse, designed by Rae Nedjadi and published…

the tragic mecha game by aaron lim I. Dear Reader, So for the last year or so, ever seen we’ve been doing regular fortnightly playtest meet-ups over on the Session Zero discord, I’ve been involved in a ridiculous number of playtests on a ridiculous variety of games. It’s been a really fascinating experience because while…

New series tentatively titled “what we talk about when we talk about cities”. I. Dear Reader, I like cities. In fact, I think most of my games have the word “city” somewhere in the title. It might be a problem. But to channel it into something useful, I’m planning a new series on this newsletter…

spoiler-free thoughts about why RPG settings are awesome I. Dear Reader, There’s a lot of negative chatter about the new Rings of Power show and I really don’t want to add my own voice to that but there is one small thing I want to point out. No spoilers, don’t worry. Rings of Power and…

I. Dear Reader, I really enjoyed this video from Shut Up and Sit Down. The presenter, Quinns, does an extremely enthusiastic and charming video to encourage new players to get into tabletop RPGs. Please send it your friends! I enjoyed the fine tight-rope of “hey, it doesn’t matter which game you start with as long…