About This Blog...
Hi, hello, I love ttRPGs, don't you?
I've been running them for about ten years now, for several groups since COVID. Online, in person, a mix of the two. It brings me such a joy to bring people to the hobby.
But it's not quite enough. None of the people I play with are as enthusiastic as I am. They don't have the interest to engage with RPGs the way I want to - and that's perfectly alright! It goes without saying that the Game Master-type figure is often the
That said, I figure that maybe it's time to take the plunge and try to connect with others who feel about ttRPGs as I do. Who want to engage with so much more than the big names, who are willing to dig into weird mechanics or engage with some fun worldbuilding idea that crosses their path at two in the morning; or even just someone who'll see me drop a fun location and think to themselves, "Hey, that's neat, I'll put this in my own game."
I'll be writing about large indie RPGs like Heart: The City Beneath (my sheila), Spire: The City Must Fall (embrace anarchism, tear down the town) and DIE: The RPG by Kieron Gillen (don't mean to toot my own horn, but I wrote a blog post elsewhere once and Mr. Gillen himself reposted it, and ain't that nice?!). Many Free League ones, too, I love those, and the titles coming out of Darrington Press (though, idiotically, I didn't pre-order a copy of Daggerheart, which I will eternally be tormented about).
There's no escaping D&D, either, and I do sometimes have opinions about it: those will appear occasionally.
What I hope to do here is engage with the smaller titles, too, alongside all the bigger ones I've played and loved like The One Ring, Alien, Dragonbane (and half a dozen RPGs by Free League, who very rarely miss, don't they?). I want to find bizarre, unhinged rules that will have me laugh out loud in disbelief at the nerve or sheer ingenuity at display.
And I hope to make new friends. That would be a treat.
There you have it. If this sounds good and fun and what-have-you, stick around. Say hi. I hope you have a grand ol' time here.
This, by-the-by, is Doughie the dough golem. His bark is worse than his bite, and he is so, so sour about it.
