I'm Robert. I gotta put my thoughts somewhere, why not here. Campaign 2026 - Gracemaria This year I'm blogging about my next Tabletop Campaign. Here's the ...
So. Here's what happened. I wrote the whole dang thing explaining what happened in session 6 where the party tracked down a mech and kicked its ass. It was really cool. Then my browser refreshed and everything was gone and I said "I'd get to it later." A full 'nother session passed after that. So we're gonna do a truncated version while I talk about Game Mechanics ! Steel Beowulf Let's talk about…
The one where Robert does silly voices and explains what a west marches is to his players.
13 May, 2026 Reading Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark . What if the Klu Klux Klan summoned demons using Birth of a Nation to establish themselves as a major power in the US? What if black folk hunted those demons with swords and gullah magic. Very fun, short and sweet. Watching Frieren: Beyond Journey's End : doing a rewatch of the first season to remember what happened going into the second.…
We finally complete the tutorial and learn a thing or two about the main quest.
24 Mar, 2026 Reading The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi, translated by Emily Balistrieri - Still trucking along, but definitely stalled since the last update. If we don't see any movement by the next Now post, this one is gonna move to the DNF pile. Playing Marathon - I have not played a multiplayer first person shooter since 2022 and I have definitely not played any extraction shooter. This one…
The one where Robert tries to find out exactly how many is too many players.
12 Mar, 2026 Watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- Deep Space Nine has always been a favorite of mine but when my roommates in college were doing a big watch of all the series, I missed the final season because of other obligations. Now that my wife is rewatching, I have joined her for the last bit, so I can finally see how the whole thing wraps up in the end. Reading The Tatami Galaxy by…
The one where Robert begs you to care about background music.
The gang crawls in a dungeon and learns about shooting stars.
First thoughts on what an TTRPG based around the Extraction Shooter loop could look like.