I just read Cats Have No Lords's post Tyranny of the Crawl (as well as the accompanying topic on The Cauldron), and it got me thinking about the relationship between hexcrawls...

My only experience with Super Mario World was accidentally (on purpose) overwriting my older cousin's save during a visit after playing for a few hours and not wanting to lose...

I'm in the process of collecting cartridges of all the original launch titles for the Game Boy (both Japanese and North American). So far, Yakuman is pretty fun (see my mahjong...

I've heard some folks only allow characters in dnd to wear two magic rings—one on each hand. Well, I say that's dumb. I've got ten fingers, after all (and that's before we even...

I've always meant to keep up with, read, and vote on the Bloggies. Sadly, I've only ever managed to read a few of the winners after the fact. Time to catch up, and then do...

This seems incredibly useful (especially in light of my recent abandoning of read later apps). It inspired me to make a bookmarklets page. Find a bookmarklet for using this there.

I blame this post for my recent return to Pokémon via the Nuzlocke Challenge.

I just started playing Pokémon LeafGreen for the Game Boy Advance. It will be my first playthough of a generation 3 Pokémon game. (I'm opting to play the 3DS remake of the...

Goodboy Galaxy is a metroidvania released for the Game Boy Advanced on the console's twentieth anniversary (and also available on Steam). It's also the first game I played on...

I was introduced to TTRPGs by the bassist of the band I was in right out of college. This was back in 2012 in Akron, Ohio (USA). We started with D&D 4E, premade characters, and...

This topic over on The Cauldron talking about hexes (originally, in reference to this blog post has me thinking about the purpose and, by extension, size of a hex in dnd1. To...

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I blasted through Enshittification by Cory Doctorow in just three days. It was a great, if mostly infuriating, read. I was already familiar with Doctorow and his idea of...

Search on the web is so broken right now. Ads, auto generated "answers", "related" searches, LLM slop—the list goes on and on. In an effort to curb some of this crap, I spent...

Kero Kero Cowboy is a great little platformer for the Game Boy Color (which I played on my Anbee, aka my Anbernic RG 35XX Plus). The first half of the game is near perfection,...

I didn't get a chance to participate in the The Rankin Bass Hexmas Crawl, but it sure looks like an exciting project. I hope to run some games in it next holiday season...

Back when I was messing around with an emulated C64 and reading through the user manual, I made this little dice roller. Forgot to post it back then. Now that the new C64...

If you're into old-school dnd and not already reading "You see this." (not to mention using their excellent tokens), you definitely should be.

Another great recurring collection of TTRPG news, links, and discussion to add to the growing list (already containing Indie RPG Newsletter, Shiny TTRPG Links, OSR News...

Looking back on twenty twenty-five as I was making this list, I kept thinking of things I wanted to put on it, only to realize they're from two thousand twenty-four. This past...

Eko has done some good work here. If I hadn't already hacked together my own setup using Eleventy, I'd probably give it a try. Regardless, looks like a great option for new...

I'm in the process of turning my old website (if you know, you know) into my more professional home on the 'net. To that end, and during that process, I've brought over all my...

The 3D on the 3DS was really cool. I got every gold trophy on every difficulty, but couldn't quite manage three gold starts on all the 150cc and mirror cups. Still, solid Mario...

You know I had to load this puppy up on my Miyoo Mini Plus for some festive holiday fun! (So what if my high score is currently only nine hundred something—I'm still getting...

Robert shares two great tools here (in addition to his beautiful vision of the internet): Blog Quest (for finding RSS feeds as you browse the web) and StreetPass (the same but...

With a winter weather advisory in effect here in the foodhills of Appalachia, I'm feeling pretty festive. So, inspired by Dávid's Snowfall post (and using most of his code), I...

It could be argued that Return of the Jedi is the weakest of the original Star Wars trilogy. The same could be said for the Super Star Wars trilogy of Super Nintendo games. And...

I've heard if monks making beer, wine, and even fruitcake, but never have I heard of an order of monks making websites. I kind of love it. (Too bad they're not still coding.)

I guess this is a retro game review blog now.