Category: Reflections
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I want to love this game, but there are three things I wish I knew before starting a short campaign–and one reason I was glad when it was over. The tldr is this: I have mixed feelings about Public Access, I give 6.5 Odyssey Tapes out of 10. And if Public Access looks cool to…
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You know what’s cringe? Falling in love. Telling your friends that you value them. Getting earnestly excited about your hobbies. Being vulnerable with others. You know what else is cringe? Asking acquaintances in your life to play ttrpgs with you, and getting over the fear of mixing different groups of people in your life over…
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One of my favourite things about Ravenloft is its wacky worldbuilding: each Domain of Dread is a mind-prison tailored by mysterious Dark Powers to eternally torture its Darklord. Made of shadowstuff and the Darklord’s own memories, these domains are unreal yet populated by very real, trapped souls. The most famous Darklord is Count Strahd, imprisoned…
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This month, I’m reading Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer. It’s the sequel to Borne—a novel I absolutely adore for its refusal to hold the reader’s hand. VanderMeer respects the reader; he drops a disturbing piece of worldbuilding, moves on, and trusts you to sit with the implications. But Dead Astronauts feels less like a traditional…
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Last year, a friend introduced our group to Brindlewood Bay. I was immediately struck by its near-perfect mystery system. Over six sessions, we told a largely player-driven, truly resonant story about facing loss. Now, I’m running Public Access for some of the same group. Three sessions into a planned year of play, having seen the…
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This weekend I visited Montreal for the first time and spent most of it wandering around aimlessly looking at the sites. Overall I was very charmed. At times I was overwhelmed. I thought a lot about Electric Bastionland. I thought about the different routes we took, the strange and wonderful encounters we had, and when…
Bath Imaginable 