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About my own writing

Finished work I decided to publish as a blog post

Events I've attended

  • [August 2025] NSR camp (again) and the strengths and weaknesses of 4E.
  • [May 2025] NSR camp and why online conventions and convention-like events are important.
  • [November 2024] Big Bad Con 2024: mostly about the games I played.

Cataphracts

Posts about the very large logistics oriented wargame by Sam Sorensen.

Over/Under

Posts about the very large game that occured in October and November of 2025.

  • A list of all the blog posts I could find is here.
  • [November 2025] The story of Sanyang's death part 1: the death and broader poltiical context.
  • [November 2025] The story of Sanyang's death part 2: the investigation of the death.
  • [November 2025] The story of Sanyang's death part 3: the subsequent fallout.
  • [November 2025] Is Over/Under a wargame? Also thoughts on what it means to be in character, and the role of violence in this game.
  • [November 2025] Art and "art" I made for Over/Under. Also an example of a little storyline I worked on for several weeks, an example of a different sort of RP I was doing in this game.

Game mechanics and other nominally playable stuff (mostly drafts)

Worldbuilding

  • [September 2026] On names: a bit about my random name generators.
  • [May 2025] On religion: miscellaneous ideas including some ideas for making your religions more creative and some ideas for Cairn.
  • [May 2023] The Bones of the City: a bit about cities.
  • [May 2022] Adults on Bikes: some early brainstorming for a PbtA solarpunk game.
  • [Dec 2021] The Common Tongue: what's with everyone speaking the samge language?
  • [Nov 2021] Locations part 2: as above, but from one trip to the desert.
  • [Oct 2021] Locations part 1: some inspiration from real-world places for TTRPG writing.

Thoughts on other games

These aren't really reviews - I'll only write about things I like and I'm not trying to rank how objectively good they are. These are more about sharing things that I like, hopefully giving an idea of whether or not you'd like them, and just some random thoughts on them.

  • [May 2025] Thoughts on haxen as well as a short play report.
  • [July 2024] Thoughts on Tome of Tombs and 2400 (which have nothing to do with each other) as well as a tomb I made with the former.
  • [November 2022] Some initial impressions of the solo game Glide

General thoughts on writing and TTRPGs

My better blog posts in this category:

Medium good posts in this category that haven't been demoted to the botton of the page:

Actual plays

These are mostly very roughly written. Note that I also have a separate page about solo games for easier linking.

Notes to self + future plans

Old blog posts

Things hat are no longer of particular interest to me