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...
The King of Santa Fe Session Thirteen
The final session of No Love Between Friends, adventure three in Steaming Rock. Cody is badly injured and possibly losing his leg, but with Danny and Diago,...
2026 Reading Challenge 6 The Big Sleep
As part of The Grognard Files Book Club, I’d re-jigged my schedule to line up this book with that meeting. If you’re interested, you can join too. Click the...
The King of Santa Fe Session Twelve
Sheriff Fletcher bursts into the clearing, “We got trouble! Them Ross boys are armed and ready to burn Steaming Rock to the ground unless someone's swinging...
Dice on the Borderlands 2026 Review
After missing the inaugural DotB in 2024, I made up for it in 2025 and vowed to return in 2026. To summarise, it’s rolling dice in a real castle, Chepstow...
2026 Reading Challenge 5 The Lawless Roads
I got to Graham Greene’s book via Tim Butcher’s Blood River; he’d mentioned it as inspiration, and I’d been so immersed in Blood River that I picked it up...
The King of Santa Fe Session Eleven
The investigation into the death of Howard Ross continues. Given a last minute switch meant that Pinkie and Silas went to meet Ross and that these boys work...
2026 Reading Challenge 4 The Water Knife
I’m a big fan of The Windup Girl and Paolo’s short stories in the same universe. The Water Knife is mightily prescient; at its heart, desperate misfits try...
The King of Santa Fe Session Ten
Sheriff Fletcher calls Cody in; he needs Cody to take a lead on this missing person. He needs an answer to where Howard Ross has gone. Fletcher passes over...
The King of Santa Fe Session Nine
We join our party as they look to get paid after delivering the body of a dead bounty hunter to Ellis Rockcliffe. But paid by whom? Actually, Hubb McGraw, on...
The King of Santa Fe Session Eight
We’ve made it to Silver City and met with undertaker Gus McLeary to arrange the transfer of the body of Thomas Vance back to Steaming Rock. Whilst there, it...
GrogLove 2026 Review
It comes around so soon and is all the better for that. GrogLove is one half of GrogL, the other being GrogLaw. A TTRPG convention organised in London by...
The King of Sante Fe Session Seven
When we left the party, they’d rescued Goyan and her family and killed one of the varmints, with another high-tailing it from the scene of the crime....
2026 Reading Challenge 3 Some Japanese Ghosts
Lafcadio Hearn was a 19th century interpreter of Japanese language and culture. He arrived in Japan during the Meiji era when the country was modernising...
The King of Santa Fe Session Six
Halfway to Silver City and the party has committed to young Apache Góyąń to find her parents and, if needed, rescue them. Góyąń Winston tracks two on foot...
2026 Reading Challenge 2 The Bat
Inspired by the release of Paul Baldowski’s Nordic Noir RPG Cörk Børd, I decided to delve into the start of the Harry Hole series. So Scandi Noir, it’s...
2026 Reading Challenge 1 The One Hand & The Six Fingers
I’m back. A new reading challenge, I’m being softer on myself this time, just 26 books in 2026, so one every two weeks and maybe a review. Oh plus audiobooks...
