Sword World 2.5 has been on my list of games to play for several years now, ever since I saw this youtube series discussing Japanese TRPG culture. My understanding of ttrpgs...

In 2025, I wrote a post called “alternative game fantasy: a manifesto“. It was my best attempt at expressing dissatisfaction with the six cultures of play, specifically because...

During college, I used to attend weekly board game nights with some friends. Sentinels of the Multiverse was a repeat favorite: a cooperative, fixed-deck card game. The game is...

We started preparing for our GURPS mini campaign about two months ago. Myself and several other intrepid explorers from the Paper Cult forums have been running a variety of our...

I need to be less of a tourist when it comes to Japanese roleplaying games. I exist downstream from decades of culture and art that exists in conversation with itself, and I...

As part of an organized effort on the Paper Cult forums, I have been playing a variety of games in short 3-session campaigns to “Meet The RPG“. It’s kindof like a book club,...

In late 2024, I was hanging out in Farmer Gadda’s discord server, talking about tabletop rpgs (as was custom at the time). He mentioned that he had published 28 blog posts that...

I was born in the USA, but my parents moved overseas when I was four. Outside of a very brief stint in an international school, the vast majority of my pre-university education...

I like superhero comics. As a trans woman, I feel a particular affinity with the X-Men’s mutant metaphor. I had a few random comic books as a kid but I began a serious...

Have you ever thought to yourself: “I wish my fantasy campaign had a deckbuilding minigame like Triple Triad, Gwent, or Pazaak“? Would you like something more mechanically...