RPGsQC ShadowsMusicBooksNotes

QC Shadows

wet art

QC Shadows, session 13 • 3/5/2026

Handwritten notes by C.

characters

QC Shadows, session zero • 6/5/2025

Characters Jack the Spectre Linsey the Immortal Nathaniel the Sworn Skarn the Imp Viktor the Wolf

RPGs

Daggerheart

the Critical Role answer to D&D

For the Tower

like For the Queen, Dread, and The Quiet Year, inspired by Silo

Mythic Bastionland

weird Arthurian knights

Xenolanguage

Arrival the RPG

Books

Reading now: Slow Gods

Claire North

Reading now: Play

Stuart L. Brown, Christopher C. Vaughan

The Naming Song

Jedediah Berry

Malachi

Unknown

In Ascension

Martin MacInnes

The Sabbath World

Judith Shulevitz

Music

Advent archive

all Advent playlists, 2024 and earlier

Merry Christmas playlist

the definitive

that joy

Advent 2025 playlist

Notes

new rpgs vs Swords Beyond

design thoughts

Since Gamicon Bromine 2026 and the new-to-me RPGs I played, I’ve been thinking about Swords Beyond a...

Ahoy!

Leder Games

My first Gamicon Bromine 2026 game. Leder Games, asymmetric. A disastrous die roll knocked me out of...

Gamicon Bromine

the Iowa City games convention, 2026

Here’s what I played. Friday Ahoy! by Leder Games Mythic Bastionland Blood on the Clocktower - We w...

Silos

by Reiner Knizia

My last Gamicon Bromine 2026 game. Fun! Aliens hoovering up humans and cows. My first Knizia game: s...