Flight and hotel now arranged for @sdhistcon.bsky.social in a few short weeks.
Roughly every year or two, I buy a game outside my usual territory. (Wargames, wargaming-adjacent, or RPGs.) In today's case, that game was Lords of Baseball, which I saw on multiple tables at WBC. Looks like a big spreadsheet... so right up my alley.
The free downloadable Quickstart for The Expanse: Transport Union Edition #TTRPG is now publicly available! Check it out as well as the current crowd-funder for the new edition on BackerKit!
The brand new Quickstart for The Expanse: Transport Union Edition is available for download now! There are just 14 days left for our crowdfundi
Good for Detroit.
ICYMI - this is my best video essay to date. I think I am really finding my groove and voice within this form. If you watch it & dig it, please recommend it to others - "board game design philosophy" is not a niche the algorithm particularly loves.
New video essay! "Rules As Play: The Human Art of Writing, Learning, and Breaking Rules" explores what rules are, how they are taught, and how this shapes our interaction with games. youtu.be/VDjK1jX93yM
YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland
Played The Republic of Rome today boardgamegeek.com/bo...#bggplay via @BoardGameGeek (The Republic fell - all players lost.)
Politicians cooperate and compete over personal and Ancient Roman glory.
Editing queue down to 19.
Season 2 opener for the 'Gaming from the First Age' podcast, where I talk about the #TravellerRPG@orlanth.bsky.socialpodcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fir...
My full (Spoiler-free except for one pretty tiny thing) review of Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson - Book Two the the Malazan Book of the Fallen. youtu.be/30OWQ86UWuY
YouTube video by Voyages Into Imagination
Somewhat unexpected reissue of the year, @chaosium.bsky.social are adding ElfQuest to their ‘classics’ line, with a kickstarter to produce a facsimile of the 1984 box set & all its supplements (which reminds me I never did buy the CoC ‘classics’ box but anyway…) Campaign launches in Oct!
