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Pittsburgh at Night
New campaign means new campaign fiction. After some personal vacillating, I decided to return to Urban Shadows for my group’s next game. It both contrasts very well with the campaign we’re also running and gives me a chance to take the system out for another run after a promising stint with new roleplayers here in Boston. Due to my group’s origin story, we’re basing the game in Pittsburgh, the…
The nerd shift (if it exists)
The last time I talked about this topic, I may have danced around some of my thoughts on the matter, in part because it’s easy to take them out of context or misconstrue what I’m trying to say. The ‘nerd shift’ in TTRPGs is important because it implies that there is a fair expectation of what broader conversation about the hobby looks like. It also implies that the nerd shift did not start all of…
Who Am I?
We’ve kicked off a new game as of last weekend. This means new setting and new characters, and while a session zero is meant to give you space to figure out what you want to play and what you want your character to be, there’s still a sense of going in a bit blind, especially with a new setting. There’s another wrinkle for me personally; thanks to the fact that I am the one most recently coming…
Continuing adventures in worldbuilding
With roughly a month before I expect I will be running a game and diverting my GM energies elsewhere, I’ve been taking the opportunity to continue to write the fantasy world I expect to use for a long game and some indeterminate point in the future. I’ve mentioned this setting before, as early as January of this year, and I am still plugging away. I’d venture I’ve actually gotten to a point where…
First half 2026: Review of projects
2026 is half over. Time flies when you’re having fun (or the world is a waking nightmare), I suppose. With that in mind, I wanted to review my side projects for the year and figure out to what degree that can inform my writing priorities for the second half. While I did write some short fiction this year, the majority of time I spent writing was game related; the first three months I was GMing a…
Last Laugh
After three-plus years of gaming, my main group’s game of Cyberpunk Red is coming to an end. The last month or so has seen a lot of plot escalation, a few near-death experiences, and one character that had to be written out of the game very close to the end. With as much time as we’ve spent in this setting and this campaign, an ending is going to be a little emotional. With that in mind, I hope…
All of our TTRPG plans have been turned upside down by one player's international temporary assignment. For me, though, that means it's time to pick another game to GM.
I'm thinking about my next #ttrpg campaign, and in doing so I'm thinking about what it takes to give parts of the world a real sense of place, or at least what it takes to encourage my players to stick around long enough for all of us to find that sense of place.
I'm in Texas, for work. This isn't really a post, but I'll be back to it next week.
Finally, the conclusion to Nat meets Donnie. This may come as a surprise to some, but the events here lead directly into how Donnie ended up going into DIE.
I'm slowly chipping away at my next worldbuilding project, constantly being pulled between writing a seemingly living setting and writing a setting that's functional for a game.
I played Mixtape last weekend and really enjoyed it; it got me thinking about 'Mixtape moments' in my own adolescence and why I keep coming back to coming-of-age stories.
The key to becoming a better cyclist and writer is volume, how many miles you write or words you write. So what's the writing equivalent of dragging yourself out on the bike when you don't feel like it?
The penultimate section of Nat meets Donnie. The nerd party takes a turn, and the author recalls altogether too many house rules of beer pong.
May of 2025 kicked off a year of notable 20th anniversaries in my life with 20 years since I graduated high school. April of 2026 wraps up the 20th anniversary tour with 20 years since my first Spring Carnival at Carnegie Mellon. As the title states, a lot can happen in 20 years.
My current RPG campaign has ended. While I'm catching my breath, what can I learn, and how will it translate to running something that, if I succeed, will be completely different?
I wrote my first novel back in 2009, and I’ve been conflicted about wanting to finish it for years. My current stories serve as a helpful reminder that I should be doing this for me, not any concerns of publishability or relevance. Now, is that reminder actually going to help me start editing?