My first solo board gaming experience: Arkham Horror
I’ve been curious about solo (or solitaire) board gaming for a while now, and while I recognize that it likely sounds weird to folks who aren’t into board games — and, honestly, it still seemed a bit...
View ArticleReading Appendix N: The Dunwich Horror and Others, by H.P. Lovecraft
There’s a long gap between my first Appendix N book, The Hobbit (which was also my first Reading Appendix N book post, as I’m going in the order I read them), and my next one. One of my best friends...
View Articletremulus after two campaigns
I wrapped up a second campaign of tremulus, a Powered by the Apocalypse RPG of Lovecraftian horror by Sean Preston, this past Tuesday night. I’ve been meaning to write about tremulus for some time,...
View ArticleThe beast that broke Chaosium shambles forth: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s tremulus retrospective, in which I said “All of that combines to facilitate Lovecraftian horror so well that as much as I love Call of Cthulhu, I’m pretty sure I’d reach...
View ArticleCall of Cthulhu 7e: How much of this do I need to run the game?
Lately, when I read a new game (or assess one before buying it), I find myself asking this question: “How much of this do I need to run the game?” I’ve still got Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition on the...
View ArticleSteam locomotives powered by burning mummies
My kiddo checked Claire Llewellyn’s The Big Book of Mummies out of the library this week, and we’ve been reading it at bedtime. Apart from being interesting in its own right, I was thrilled to find...
View ArticleA digest of smaller Google+ RPG posts from 2012-2015
With the impending shutdown of Google+ — my primary (and generally only) social network and outlet for gaming chit-chat since 2012 — I’ve been slowly making my way through stuff I posted there which,...
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