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Alphabet Prime Music: A Familiar Thermal
A second batch of songs from my playlist of 224 nothing-but-favorites, this time with a Sesame Street style insistence upon the letter A. As usual, it was the music that got me, the videos are a...
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Monster Design Tools: Using Size/Strength as Well as Level
Igor Coura asked a question on Twitter that’s better answered in prose. Igor is in the middle of converting some monsters from other F20 games to 13th Age, and found himself wondering why we use the...
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Northumbria's Markland: Music for work, and exploring continents
I've become fond of the Cryo Chamber dark ambient label, available on Bandcamp. My favorite album in the genre, so far and by far, is Northumbria's Markland, the second of three albums focused on Norse...
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A Blue Sea Picture for Smoke Sky Days
This is a picture from better times on the West Coast. It's a stained glass masterpiece by our friend Steve Carlyle. Every day is better because we're around it any time we're in our living room.
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The Zoomswoop Virtual Tabletop
I've been running more games than ever before during this pandemic. At the moment, I've got a usually-weekly 13th Age game and a more-or-less biweekly 13th Age Glorantha game. I realize that many...
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Kussen Verboten
Ruby Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in Washington. This panorama shot is from 2017, catching a moment when Lisa, our dog Roo, and my cousin and her husband were the only people in the...
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AGON Again
I enjoyed John Harper’s original version of AGON, but I never ran or played that version. I’m quite a bit happier with the second edition. My capsule review would be: “AGONis as much fun to play as it...
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Carp, Dragon, Generals
This is the Chinese Garden by South Seattle College in West Seattle, on an almost deserted Thanksgiving weekend during covid. Things to find if you click to enlarge: a giant carp called the dragon...
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The Adventurers' Lament (13th Age Campaign Character Summary)
I've been running two 13th Age campaigns. The campaign that's been more active is a Thursday night game with two of our teenaged godsons and a couple good friends. The game has been a delight, mostly...
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Wrestlenomicon: Cultist Rules
(all art from the wild pen of Kurt Komoda)I’d always hoped to add servitors of the elder gods to the game, cards that would have the same card backs as Cultists. When we started the Kickstarter, I...
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2nd Book First: The Two Towers
the original tome, battered but intactAs a kid, I read what I could find. Thanks to the vagaries of bookstores and the limitations of libraries, there were at least four great fantasy series that I...
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Dice Miner: a three-dwarf variant
I’ve been enjoying the new Dice Miner game from Atlas, designed by Joshua DeBonis and Nikola Risteki. We’ve mostly played great three and four-player games. Our two-player games have also been good,...
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Half-Right: a new social game
A few weeks ago, in the brave land of maskless tabletop gaming, Fire Opal ran an eight-person playtest of a fun new card game. Everyone playing was meeting between one and six people for the first...
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Spearpoint! A 13th Age mini-arc for deviant dwarves
These are the PCs of the new 13th Age mini-arc we started playing last week. While writing Icon Followers, I made up an organization ambiguously devoted to the Dwarf King called Spearpoint. As I wrote...
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13th Age Monster Design Workshop at GenCon Online
art by Rich LongmoreIt’s that time of year when we get together to design a 13thAge monster! Saturday, September 12, at 11 a.m. PT, 2:00 p.m ET, join 13th Age writers Liz Argall, J-M DeFoggi, Wade...
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Honorable Combat in 13th Age
Here's part of the first draft of a section of the upcoming Icon Followers book that details a rules variant I've been using in my campaigns. It's an important part of a book of NPCs who tend to be...
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Photo Wrapping!
This Christmas I came up with a method of wrapping presents that made me happy. It couldn't possibly be something entirely new, but I've never seen anyone do it. I don't feel like searching the...
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The Wave & Wave
Yeah, it’s two great books with almost the same title. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean, by Susan Casey, is from the genre that mixes compelling science with the...
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Kor, the Ograkshasa Monk
What does rebellion look like when dad is an ogre mage and mom is a rakshasa?In Kor’s case, rebellion looks like obtaining magic that makes you look mostly human and studying to be a monk in a...
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Drakkenhall: City of (Surprisingly Amusing) Monsters
cover by Roena I. Rosenberger You wouldn't know it from the seriously beautiful cover, but Drakkenhall: City of Monsters is a seriously funny book! You *might* know it from the back-cover text, because...
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