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Review: The Magus

March 24, 2022 By The Chatty DM

I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at “The Magus”. I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven “Sell me an amazing Indie RPG” thread but I hadn’t gotten to reading it yet. All I remembered was that it looked gorgeous.

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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath

November 20, 2024 By Dave

Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.

The Magus

Review: The Magus

March 24, 2022 By The Chatty DM

I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at “The Magus”. I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven “Sell me an amazing Indie RPG” thread but I hadn’t gotten to reading it yet. All I remembered was that it looked gorgeous.

Hope is Not a Plan

Hope in the Dark Heart of Evil is Not a Plan

January 24, 2022 By multiplexer

Playing my typical day-to-day as a game didn’t feel like much fun. But, I thought, if I made Hope is Not a Plan a Dungeonomics story, maybe something darkly funny would emerge.

Dorf Romantik on Steam

Chatty on Games #1: Dorf Romantik

August 10, 2021 By The Chatty DM

“It’s like they put a high scoring mechanism on a Rainy-Day-Jigsaw-Puzzle session and realized it was (redacted) addictive.” -me on Twitter.

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The Infinity Current: Adventure 0

August 24, 2020 By The Main Event

As a bonafide grownup for more than a decade after finishing law school, I’ve had the good fortune of a weekly gaming group that entire time. That is, until the Coronavirus.

Eversink Post Man

“The Eversink Post Office” – An Unofficial Supplement for Swords of the Serpentine

August 11, 2020 By multiplexer

The insatiable need for commerce drives an insatiable need for the news. From Eversink back alley gossip circles to the rarified circle of the Triskadane, everyone needs to know what’s going on everywhere, all the time. Often, whoever lays hands on the news first, wins.

The Diabolist

13th Age: Indexing Truths

June 8, 2020 By The Chatty DM

Whenever I have a short pause in in what I’m doing at my desk, I reach out for the little pile of index cards called “The Horizon Consipracy” and add new cards to it.

The Diabolist

The Horizon Conspiracy

May 19, 2020 By The Chatty DM

Then a question came to me: “Which icon is going to run interference in this scheme?” and asked for a final d12 roll and came up with “The Diabolist”

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