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It’s the age-old conundrum: Do you play a bad game for an amazing setting? The list of great games with bad systems is too long to list in its entirety here, but we’ve all seen such games, and I’m sure can list at least a few off the top of our heads and mostly agree upon them. MechWarrior? Chill? Rifts? Shadowrun? Marvel Super Heroes (the TSR yellow-box edition)? Earthdawn? Obviously, I’m sure…

I’ve been at the content creation game for a while now, since the mid-2000’s, but in earnest since 2010 officially. I’ve seen both sides of the YouTube content creation cycle, had some limited success, but all in all have settled into creating for my own enjoyment. So take the following advice for what you will… Being a Dick on YouTube is a great way to make money, at least in the short term.…

Okay, I just have to ask people… Why do so many people hate Modiphius‘ 2D20 system? I know it isn’t your standard “Dungeons & Dragons”-style D20 system, but that’s part of its charm for me. Where D&D asks you to roll a D20, add a modifier, and try to surpass a target number, Modiphius instead asks you to roll against a target number on each die, count up each die that succeeded, and see if the…

So I’ve been playing a variety of different indie video games the last few years, and I’m frankly shocked by the value for our dollars that we’re seeing from them. Games for “Brotato” to “Vampire Survivors” keep adding in free or low-cost content to their games, keeping them infinitely replayable and just plain a whole lot of fun! You even see bigger games like “No Man’s Sky” doing much the same…

So I thought today might be a good enough time to talk about the game engine I’m thinking of using for my upcoming tabletop roleplaying game. A lot of you will see aspects of what I’m thinking about and scream “That’s PbtA!”… and you won’t be wrong. I’m a huge fan of the “Powered by the Apocalypse” idiom, since there are no real core rules shared among those games, just concepts and some shared…

Just to lay things all out on the table, I was going to use this article to announce the pending release of a new tabletop roleplaying actual-play podcast. I was going to launch this last week in fact, over on my sister site, Tabletop Tribe. Obviously, that didn’t happen. You see, I’ve been itching to play TTRPGs again for some time, and thought this might be a good way to scratch said itch.…

So I’m in the middle of my regular summer holiday, where I take two weeks off of my Day Job to take my dogs out into the wilderness to avoid fireworks, and to enjoy a bit of sun and fun along the way. Normally we go camping, but decided to forego that in favor of other options. Frankly, cheaper options, but whatever gets the dogs away from the big booms is fine by me! What is really important…

So I’ve been doing a roleplaying playthrough of “Starfield” on YouTube for a month or so now, and have been really enjoying it. But recently I picked up another RPG, and remembered just how much I used to love it, so it got me thinking: Should I do a roleplaying playthrough of “Avowed”? Obviously this would be in addition to and alongside the “Spaceman Griff – Across the Cosmos!” series I’m…

Tomorrow, June 27th, 2026, is Free RPG Day 2026 (unless you’re in the UK, where it has been delayed to a future date due to shipping issues). Most brick-and-mortar game stores will be taking part in this event, but check the website to find a local store that is participating in the festivities. Now, with all those caveats aside, what exactly is going on for Free RPG Day 2026? Well, it looks…

First of all, despite what you might think, this is not rage bait. Just keep reading. The long-awaited Steam Machine is finally becoming available to the public for purchase starting June 29th, and that’s great… but there’s a problem, that will likely kill any momentum it had: The price. Now I think we all knew in our hearts that, considering the economy and the state of RAM and digital storage…

So I have been playing “Starfield” since the very beginning, back in September of 2023. Yes, this was on my Xbox Series X, which I bought specifically to play “Starfield”, as it was a much cheaper option than buying or building a PC at that time. To be fair, the XSX is still a cheaper option than buying a PC, but I did just that earlier this year. Anyway, I’ve been playing “Starfield” for the…

Recently I have been pondering tabletop roleplaying game mechanics, especially one simple question: When should one take an action? Well, that really depends on the game, frankly. Crunchier games with lots of tactical rules tend to want players taking actions – usually rolling dice to determine whether or not they succeeded – quite a lot. Personally, I’m not much of a fan of that. When there is…

So y’all might know that I’m a bit of an Xbox Fanboy. Just a little bit, nothing major… But yeah, I’m Team Green all the way, ever since I bought my Xbox Series X back in August 2023. Anyway, that’s neither here nor there. Now then, my XSX works just fine, but I’ve been thinking of upgrading to a newer, better model, should the opportunity (and money) appear to me. Mine only has 512GB of…

Right. So ArenaNet is finally developing a follow-up to the amazing, groundbreaking MMORPG, “Guild Wars 2”. Cool. Great. Awesome. Well, I walked away from GW2 some time ago, for a variety of reasons. Health, my computer not being up to snuff to run the game anymore, the game not being available on consoles (where I was preferring to play the last few years), etc. But now that I have a new laptop…

It’s entirely possible that you haven’t noticed this as of yet, but I’ve been a busy little beaver, when it comes to YouTube. A few weeks back I started a new character in “Starfield”, and began recording his exploits for YouTube, roleplaying as I went along. It’s a rather stupid little weekly series, but I’ve been having fun with it, especially since – unlike other times I’ve tried something…

So a couple of years ago I backed a project on Kickstarter, for a deck of cards that would supplement TTRPG play. The project itself doesn’t matter, I’ve backed many such projects over the years, and they aren’t to blame for what happened here, so they will remain nameless. The main thing that matters is that their creator was based out of Canada, and I’m in the United States. Anyway, the…

So I just have to discuss something today, that frankly has me a little… confused. “Lord of the Rings Online” is an MMORPG that has been running for a very long time, since 2007. While it still has its fans, LOTRO has pretty much seen its days in the sun pass long ago, although to be fair Daybreak continues to develop new content for the game. This is an elder MMO, no doubt about it. So why is…