Books… Bundle of Holding: Cohors Cthulhu 24 Oct 202622 Oct 2026 Bundle of Holding has launched a new bundle collecting the entire Cohors Cthulhu line from Modiphius. For anyone who's missed it, Cohors Cthulhu is Modiphius' take on Mythos horror in…
RPGs… Why I Prefer Mixed-Level Parties 19 Sep 202619 Sep 2026 One thing I’ve always found funny in D&D, and other games with strict, linear progression is the idea that your adventuring party is a perfectly levelled squad. Five heroes, all…
Books… Humble Bundle: Dying Earth 30 Aug 202629 Aug 2026 If you’ve ever cast Magic Missile or Vancian spells in Dungeons & Dragons, you owe a debt of gratitude to fantasy titan Jack Vance. Long before standard fantasy tropes took…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: It Was You, the DM, Who Ruined This Party 12 Aug 202611 Jul 2026 You didn’t mean to break them. That’s the first thing to understand. No one ever sets out to ruin a party. It happens slowly, almost politely, like rot under floorboards.…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Player Who Rolls Like They’re Summoning Something 4 Aug 202616 Jul 2026 We all have our little rituals and superstitions. Dice, representing chance, attract many such rituals. As such, there are players who roll dice with little real thought, and then there…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Group That Cannot Agree on Food 29 Jul 202628 Jun 2026 There are many ways a D&D session can fall apart. Combat can drag. Plot threads can dangle and tangle. Someone can make a joke so cursed it derails the table…
RPGs… Where Culture Meets the Tabletop, Part 3: David Lynch and Narrative Ambiguity 24 Jul 202615 Jul 2026 It's Friday! Usually, we'd be jumping into 5 on Friday, but as I'm travelling just now, and those posts are a pain to format on the phone, here's something a…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Party That Keeps Accidentally Kidnapping People 22 Jul 202611 Jul 2026 Some parties rescue NPCs, and then there are other parties who “rescue” NPCs in the same way a tornado “relocates” a barn. They don’t mean to kidnap anyone. They simply…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Player Who Treats Loot Like a Custody Battle 14 Jul 202612 Jul 2026 Play D&D for any length of time, and you'll quickly realise that many players don’t see treasure as treasure. They see it as a referendum on their personal worth. The…
Books… Bundle of Holding: Colostle 11 Jul 202611 Jul 2026 Colostle is a solo RPGs that, instead of handing you a world, hands you a vast architectural impossibility and says, “Go on then. See what’s out there.” This new Bundle…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Party That Cannot Walk Past Anything 8 Jul 20267 Jul 2026 Every RPG group feels slightly different. There are adventuring parties that stride boldly into danger, and then there are the ones who treat every square foot of dungeon like a…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The NoRerolls “Every Session Ends in Tears” Simulator 1 Jul 20268 Jul 2026 Let’s be honest with ourselves for a single, terrifying second: tabletop gaming is a terrible hobby. We spend hundreds of pounds on plastic men, thousands of hours reading rulebooks that…
