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Kinfire Council

This election day everything came up Kessler in all of our local races and even in some major headline-grabbing national races so as a celebratory present to myself, I popped open one of my perpetually simmering browser tabs and added … Continue reading

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Black Orchestra

There’s never a wrong time to kill Hitler. The trouble is finding the motivation and a trustworthy crew. Luckily for us and countless alternate realities, we have Black Orchestra to solve these issues. Black Orchestra is a cooperative game of … Continue reading

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Andor Season 2

It was 2016 and I remember watching the trailer for Rogue One and getting so excited hearing Forest Whitaker speaking ominously and enigmatically. There was something gritty and dirty and threatening after the shining polish of Force Awakens. I was … Continue reading

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Vantage

A bad thing happened to me and my family finances this month. I purchased a game largely on a whim and it’s become not only my favorite new game of 2025 but possibly…. ever. This is the equivalent of playing … Continue reading

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Star Wars Outer Rim

In juxtaposition with my last post about Star Wars Talisman, I want to talk about Outer Rim which falls squarely in the talisman genre even if it is not part of the Talisman brand. Both games see players move around … Continue reading

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Star Wars Talisman

Talisman is both a brand and genre of game and I’ve been playing both since 1989. (For more in depth takes read this.) As a game it is long, repetitive, unbalanced, and somehow completely addictive to children’s brains. A decade … Continue reading

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Heart

Tragedy is a challenging theme for roleplaying games to explore. When pitching a game to friends, GMs often have an easier time evoking images of heroes and/or scoundrels gaining fame, power, and riches rather than offering up a literal descent … Continue reading

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War of Whispers

There are many games where players move armies around a map to seize and hold territory in order to secure victory. These games can have a King of the Mountain energy where obvious winners inspire other players to set aside … Continue reading

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Earthborne Rangers

Folks who have been following this blog know I’m a sucker for a strong theme that grips the imagination and tells a story. Given that, one would be forgiven for assuming I hanker for big campaign or legacy games but … Continue reading

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

I love Susanna Clarke’s collection of whimsical footnotes with attached novel and for a longer conversation on the subject I’ll direct you to episode 71 of this very podcast. But today I want to talk about Osprey Games’ 2019 adaptation … Continue reading

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