I. Dear Reader Another week, another little anecdote. If you’re following me on bluesky, you might’ve seen this already. Last week, in my Apocalypse World: Burned Over game, an interesting thing happened: all my players teamed up. Now this is something that you might take for granted in most games… but in AW, you shouldn’t.…

I. Dear Reader, On reddit, azura26 did some interesting graphical visualization of what games get recommended and how connected they are to each other. You should check out the thread here because it explains how the chart was made and how to read it. But I’m also posting the image below so you get a…

I. Dear Reader, I’ve been thinking about scenarios and railroading and ease of GMing. Let me take a step back. GMing is hard. It’s not so hard that people don’t constantly just learn how to do it on their own but it’s hard enough that many people don’t do it. It’s also hard to talk…

I. Dear Reader, Just the links this week! See you next time, Thomas II. Media of the Week III. Links of the Week From the archive: IV. Small Ads All links in the newsletter are completely based on my own interest. But to help support my work, this section contains sponsored links and advertisements. If…

I. Dear Reader, I’ve started three campaigns recently with three different games. But the thing I want to talk about is how they’ve each demanded three different kinds of prep. That isn’t something I’ve really thought about in the past. Prep is prep, you know. Names, places, animals, things, we’ve all done it, we get…

I. Dear Reader There are lots of Godzilla movies—around 40 across Japanese and English. Each of those movies showcase a monster but at the same time, they showcase more than that. Godzilla is usually born from nuclear fallout. The destruction he causes are the ripples of a greater disaster, the fear he elicits an echo…

I. Dear Reader, I missed an edition of this regular round-up of new games on itch. If this is the first time you’re seeing one of these: they are mostly games that came through this form. I haven’t played or read them but each of them has something that made me sit up and pay…

I. Dear Reader Thanks to everyone who replied after last week’s post! I received lots of positive feedback on both ideas, which is easily the best outcome I could’ve asked for. Lots of people were thinking about how much work it would be and that was also really kind. I really appreciate that. The end…

I. Dear Reader, Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about what this newsletter is about. We’re coming up on the 5th year anniversary, that’s part of it. But also, come the weekend, I’m often struggling to figure out what goes here now. Curation is the heart of the show, of course. But what about this…