RPGaDay 05 Aug 2026 - Burden
What burden is a character willing to carry until the end? The Hand of Vecna Takes me back to something my character was burdened with, but it was nothing...
The King of Santa Fe Session Eighteen
A cut down session as we focus on Sheriff Cody Joyce and Reverend Diago Carter, due to unavailability of others and line up our finale on the 31st August....
RPGaDay 04 Aug 2026 - Charm
An enjoyable moment of charm gone right or wrong? Charm I have to plump for Yineve, Yineve Dol-Gara, an operative (spy) in our Mercy of the Icons campaign...
RPGaDay 03 Aug 2026 - Poise
How does one character present themselves? Poise An immediate reminder of Graham’s character, Arthur, in our The Yellow King RPG campaign and playtest,...
RPGaDay 02 Aug 2026 - Stature
What does one character’s stature in their community mean to them? Stature comes in all shapes Back to Tales of the Old West, it’s fertile ground for RPG...
RPGaDay 01 Aug 2026 - Discipline
Share a character or fellow player who is a strong example of discipline. Sheriff Cody Joyce When I think of discipline, I think of Cody, once Deputy and now...
2026 Reading Challenge 12 Sonic Life
The life and times of singer and guitarist Thurston Moore, from the band Sonic Youth. An important band for me for many years. I’d lost touch with their...
The King of Santa Fe Session Seventeen
Unfortunately life has intervened and two of our players are missing the final, two-three sessions. So we begin with Diago, Cody and Winston. Winter is...
the ossuary mechanic
Like many wannabe TTRPG designers, I have a long pipeline of things I want to release and a very lightweight portfolio of actual releases. Somehow, though,...
By Endurance We Conquer Session Two
This is a write up of the second session of By Endurance We Conquer, a Carved from Brindlewood scenario written by Harald Eckmüller. The players were Ian...
2026 Reading Challenge 11 The Summer Book
If you are looking for episodic wisdom, you’ve come to the right place. Individual scenes have strong emotional impacts, rather than an overarching plot or...
The King of Sante Fe Session Sixteen
The camera pans across the town of Steaming Rock, snow is falling, and not many folks are on the streets. A light shines from The Homestead Inn, and we enter...
By Endurance We Conquer Session One
This is a write up of the first session of By Endurance We Conquer, a Carved from Brindlewood scenario written by Harald Eckmüller. The players were Ian...
2026 Reading Challenge 10 The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Going way, way back to 1896, 130 years ago, for this classic Gothic Horror/Sci-Fi. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is one...
The King of Sante Fe Session Fifteen
Back to the main campaign, and Cody’s Faith is seen in blood red reality; Live by the gun, die by the gun. “Live by the gun, die by the gun.” ~ Cody Joyce...
2026 Reading Challenge 9 Hex
I bumped this book up the list as I was looking for a change of tone, and I thought a schlocky horror would do it. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Hex by...
2026 Audiobook The Dog Stars
There are post-apocalyptic novels about survival. Peter Heller's The Dog Stars is a dreamy, internal monologue about love fading and reigniting. The Dog...
The King of Santa Fe Session Fourteen
As we are two players down I created a short encounter. A missing stagecoach. On it, the monthly wages for Steaming Rock workers. Bandits. Bears. Oh my....
2026 Reading Challenge 8 Faceless Killers
As part of an RPG kickstarter, Cörk Børd, I’d been watching and reading a few Scandi Noir classics, first was The Bat, and now on to what some would suggest...
2026 Reading Challenge 7 Endurance
I am running By Endurance We Conquer, it’s a Carved from Brindlewood game from The Gauntlet, written by Harald Eckmüller. As preparation for this, I picked...
