• Roleplaying games are stories

    They’re different from novels, short stories, comics, theater, movies, and most other forms of storytelling. That does not remove the tale being told nor the concept of story. If anything they are most similar to communal storytelling around a campfire and improv dramas. For the most part roleplaying games are communal events with a group.…

  • Spinebloom Farms, a riverside desert

    A zonal word map of the homestead of Guarase in The Ferments, an East Marches campaign.

  • Protected: RPGs as Natural Disaster Prep

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  • The D&D Stranger Things boom is bigger than you think

    Welcome to the Hellfire Club is hard to find because there’s a D&D boom going on right now that is as large as any history.

  • My best of 2025

    What stories and writings of my own will I think about years in the future? Here are sixteen of my favorites. They cover D&D, coffee, Sounders, Reign, Defiance and natural disasters.

  • A letter to the workshop

    A recap of events in Tsavancoast, Nilbrog’s Crossing and the repulsion of the trees by Xabal Gaitee Quarter-Flagged Optigraph Balaneer nox Free Tink and non-Commissioned Officer of the Sadijh (on leave in absence).

  • Lore collage: Inspirations, disasters and conventions

    Nine links to help inspire your gaming, plus a convention where I’m talking about using RPGs to prepare for natural disasters.

  • West Thundermoon Trading Post, home the Maltunyns

    A zonal word map of the homestead of Keesrah in The Ferments, an East Marches campaign.

  • Gift guide for nerds like me

    Know someone into D&D, speculative fiction, flavor experiences and the Greater Puget Sound

  • Ferments, Sessions three & four: Mud mephit slide, wake, fey chwinga

    In session three the focus was on Keesrah. A duet session handled on Discord due to let turnout, session three was a fine example of the intent behind The Ferments campaign — always find a way to play D&D. Session four was held at Logan Brewing in Burien, as is typical. Keesrah and Guarese attended.…