tabletop blogging from the utopian virtual
My life has been so full this year. I'm a firm believer that how we spend our days is how we spend our lives, and my days have been rife (almost exhaustingly so) with friends, community, art, new birth, joy, and love. This is what we're here for, I think.
Hexmas Blogwagon - Three Calves 7 December 2025 Contents Contents Merry Hexmas! Hex: Three Calves Connections Terrain The Campfire What Happened Here? Frequently Asked Questions Day of Return And After Notes Merry Hexmas! Over on Prismatic Wasteland , there's a new blogwagon: a hexcrawl themed after old Rankin/Bass Christmas movies. Each blogger writes their own hex and connects them to others in…
It's Secret Santa Covert Critic week over on the Prismatic Wasteland discord!
It's Blog Friday! I wanted to write a hex location that evolves as you spend time away. I made this between entertaining the in-laws over Thanksgiving break, so blame any inconsistencies on the pilgrims.
Happy vampire weekend!
Note: this is part of a series on writing for the His Majesty the Worm Game Jam. Check out the intro here and the previous post here!
Note: this is part of a series on writing for the His Majesty the Worm Game Jam. Check out the intro post here!
There's a game jam for His Majesty the Worm this month!
Note: this post is part of a series! Check out the other entries here: 1 2 3
Note: this post is part of a series! Check out the other entries here: 1 2
Note: This is part of a series! If you haven't yet, check out the first post over here.
Recently while reading Nova's bathtub review of The Stygian Library by Emmy Allen I was struck by something she mentioned: there really aren't that many depthcrawls in the world. As far as I know Emmy invented the format with Gardens of Ynn (in 2018! pre-COVID!!) but, barring one or two modules, the format hasn't seen a ton of exploration.
Gen Con!!
After my last post on seeding dungeons with tarot cards I was reflecting on how much I enjoy incorporating art in my creative process. I've done this before with music and this sort of spiritual throughline has left a mark on me. Mining the details of a piece and the way they move me before translating them into an explorable space is a method for me to connect with art in a way that I really…
Today (as of me writing this), His Majesty the Worm by Rise Up Comus released! It's a game with a tarot resolution mechanic that presents itself like so:
Recently I had an opportunity to go by an old favorite LGS that I moved away from several years ago: JC's House of Cards! As far as TTRPGs go, their selection is mainly limited to D&D 5e and its ocean of br&nded merch. BUT if you ask JC nicely he's got a cardboard box of rancid 90s RPGs that he'll kick out from the stock room and let you dig through. Most of it is hot garbage (complimentary).
There are banquets everywhere, for those with stomachs to feed.
Come. Puncture the rotting flesh of the world and find treasure beneath its skin.
When you want to be exhausted, you hit the club. When you want to be obliterated, you find Disco Orpheus.
My entry in Prismatic Wasteland's New Year's Resolution challenge is the Mook Roll.
Most of my writing is inspired by whatever flavor of music I'm mainlining at the time. To describe it like a robot: music is accessible, an extremely diverse medium, and easy to mine ideas from. My favorite module I've written, FIVE A.M. PANIC!, came straight out of the feverish energy I felt the first time I listened to Panico a las 5am by Angel Rada.
At the edge of sleep: dreams. At the edge of dreams: Eden.
The Sunflower River Trail is where you go when it's time to move on, but you're still here.
Over the last year, I cut my teeth on tabletop writing by making a few adventures. And I loved it! Specifically I loved the writing part. Actually putting everything together, laying it out, and presenting it sucked ass. Those jobs are not in my skillset and truly I did not care to learn.