Welcome back to my monthly newsletter, the first of spring! Now that it's been a going concern for four months, I'm curious what people find useful, what they'd like to see...

Last weekend I (officially) attended my third Gary Con. My first was in 2020, which was unfortunately moved online for obvious reasons, and I also attended in 2024. In 2022 and...

A month has passed yet again and I have continued to track my favorite blog posts from across the RPG blogosphere this month. There's a lot of great writing to read, think...

The Bloggies wrapped up this week. Congratulations to the winners! Now I'm here to tell you which posts I thought should have won in each category. We are all very fortunate...

I was reading Pikliz Dungeon's most recent post and thinking about one of the contradictions of the Jewelsea that I haven't yet resolved - why does a world full of states and...

Written for the February 2026 Blog Carnival. Giants only enter the Jewelsea rarely. The low latitudes are unpleasant at best for these relics of a bygone era, bitter paranoiacs...

Last week, there was some discussion on the Prismatic Waystation Discord of how high danger or lethality in OSR-inflected play combined with the ease with which a character can...

It's been a great month for blogging! The Bloggies are in full swing, with voting about to begin. There's been many great posts - I've curated a selection of my favorites...

I've been thinking about knowledge this week, prompted by Elmcat's Common, Recalled, Obscure. It's a great framework for thinking about how to provide characters with knowledge...

I thought it would be a fun idea to regularly call attention to the great posts that the writers of the RPG blogging communities gift to us. I am not the first to have this...

It's the most wonderful time of year, the Bloggies! The RPG Blogosphere all gathers around, has a contest in which we pit the year's best blog posts against each other, and...

It's the start of a new year and a lot of folks have been posting their yearly wrap-ups, so I thought I'd get in on the show and talk a bit about what I've been up to this...