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Session notes

Ghouls in Holes

Redstone, session zero • 4/9/2026

When a barfight destroyed the holy ward above the front door of Holes, ghouls burst in and started m...

wet art

QC Shadows, session 13 • 3/5/2026

Handwritten notes by C. an Urban Shadows campaign

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

13th Age, second edition

new classic

Urban Shadows

urban fantasy about power and what it costs to get it

Xenolanguage

Arrival the RPG

Daggerheart

the Critical Role answer to D&D

Books

Reading now: Slow Gods

Claire North

Reading Now: Playful Awakening

Dianne Gammage

Play

Stuart L. Brown, Christopher C. Vaughan

The Naming Song

Jedediah Berry

Malachi

Unknown

In Ascension

Martin MacInnes

Music

Advent archive

all Advent playlists, 2024 and earlier

Merry Christmas playlist

the definitive

that joy

Advent 2025 playlist

Notes

Pieces

a board games bar & restaurant in the shadow of Budweiser

We played Root over appetizers, and Kids against Maturity after dinner. Fun times! My poke bowl was ...

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...