• I’m a fan of mysteries, particularly the Cozy Mysteries genre. Though not definitive of the genre, I’ve found most of them to play fair with presenting the evidence even if the final clue that brings it together is usually because of a random side remark. For me, Murder She Wrote is probably where it began Read more

  • I wasn’t familiar with author Steven Kotler before I picked up this book based on title alone (though the barcoded human on the cover did reinforce that I’d made a good choice) but apparently we swim in similar culture. Dune, Temple Grandin, and Rainer Maria Rilke aren’t just referenced, they form central plot elements in Read more

  • Time to change things up a little. Since I started doing these yearly Gamer Goals, I’ve managed to hit the mark for new games played and do pretty well for replaying older games. The problems is, my collection is pretty big already. Trying new games tends towards me buying more games while older games languish Read more

  • Currently I’m in a D&D 5.24 Dragonlance, working on getting a Blades in the Dark and a Pirate Borg – Western Marches game up and running again about once a month, a highly home brew D&D 5e game, playing in a Traveller game, and currently negotiating another game as a break from the Scum & Read more

  • This is something I intended to do during the Lockdown with a little more earnest when I had plenty of time, and managed to get a few things posted to DriveThruRpg but wound up investing way too much time into setting up Roll20 online resources. For 2025 I resolved to write up four things for Read more

  • Goal – Play at least two TTRPGs that are new to meSuccess! I managed to run two new ones to me, play in a new one, and play a different edition of a game I hadn’t played for decades. Pirate Borg I backed the kickstarter plus a bunch of other materials. Like Mothership, a fair Read more