Intermittent musings over TTRPGs and occasional think pieces....
Introduction As afforded to all British teachers, I have been enjoying a week off of 'half-term'. Though naturally I fell ill for its majority, there was a silver lining in the form of lots of time to do lots of nothing. Since starting a rewatch of Kripke's Supernatural (seasons 1-5), my fondness of fandom has been reignited. That fondness quickly turned into rumination. How did I engage with…
Introduction Hang on... Two blog posts... Two months on the trot... As a newly fledged English teacher, there are a few rites of passage I must go through. Rather than joining a book club and becoming a wineaholic (it's like an alcoholic, but more aesthetically acceptable), I joined an essay club! This means more yapping into the void about my TTRPG shenanigans. In October just gone, I, with some…
Introduction Note: For the sake of anonymity, I will be using the Dolmenwood name generation tables to replace actual student names. If it wasn't obvious from the everything about me, I am a teacher - specifically an English teacher. Currently, teaching is my vocation and centre of my universe, flourishing into multiple facets of my life. It is an absolute blast! The most startling symbiosis,…
Introduction There is something intrinsic to life about play. In another life, I may have said “human play”, however we know that play appears in both human and nonhuman animals. In her formative book Play , Catherine Garvey states: “Play, like Proteus, keeps changing shape.” She refers to the children discussed throughout the book as “students of play”, a phrase I absolutely love. Of course…
Introduction Recently I came across a blog post by Suarachán discussing their annoyance at how vastly different Dolmenwood is compared to how it presented itself in its early stages of development in the Wormskin zines . Created by Gavin Norman, who is one of the primary figures in my own OSR experience, Dolmenwood is a weird and whimsical game with that eerie tease to it that gets your hackles…