My delve into the Occult continues and the deeper I go the more I realize the largely untapped magickal potential this hobby possesses. There is power on this game and I hope to one day exploit it in a way that harms none and brings the most good to the most people.

Our first session happened on a friend’s birthday. Foes were slayed, maidens rescued, and the proud were humbled; great session. Not all heroes went on but one went off to do good things for the hobby. @ttrpgifs.bsky.social I’m proud to call you my friend and I hope you liked your present.

Now an adult in the age of the internet I bought a copy of the Player’s Handbook and a bunch of dice, studied the rules, learned about its history and its theory. By way of the lectures of @mattcolville.bsky.social I formulated my own Self Initiation Ritual, I was ready to put it into practice.

Harmonquest is an actual-play show with actors, animators, and my favorite Game Master thesixler.bsky.social. Highly recommended, it portrays the hobby as a creative exercise, goofing off, and making each other laugh. This is the one thing my friends and I excelled at. “I’m in.”

I was enthralled by the promise of dark magic. There was power in this game, I could feel it calling me, like an old crystal orb far far away calling a young peasant onto adventure. But with no support and no one to apprentice under I put my dreams to rest, until...

In 2001 a LATAM documentary on RPGs aired on the channel Infinito (think Ancient Aliens). It tried to mystify the hobby rather than explain it, asking alarmingly if this thing's malefic in any way and showing a bunch of guys rolling dice in a castle at night. Looked cool AF! youtu.be/-FyGDrUTEtE?...

I grew up in the literal fringe of America, where slivers of its culture shine through the cracks to be misunderstood and glorified. Dungeons & Dragons was only ever mentioned in passing as this weird and complicated game that only nerds play, it was at most intriguing to my young mind until…

While the word itself refers to IRL Magic Lore its literal meaning is "hidden." Why the two things are synonymous with each other is a different topic, but for now we can understand it as "Deep Lore of Magic" or “Knowledge Arcana.”