Urban Shadows: Hollywood 1955 and History Panic
We’ve started a five player campaign of Urban Shadows 2e and I couldn’t be more excited. The first edition is an all-timer, easily in my top five-or-so, sometimes higher depending...
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Hot One-Shot Summer (part 1 of ?)
Summers are where campaigns go to die. Schedules get impossible to coordinate, time passes, the fizz escapes the bottle. But where some see a campaign necropolis, I see opportunity! An...
Two Great Tastes etc: Lavender Hack + Trilemma Adventures
IGRC Global Operations had gamer visitors from California recently. We knew we’d be playing something while they were here, but we never quite nailed down what it’d be. So over...
Buddhism in a Bottle
A couple months ago, I started using a GLP-1 for weight loss: Zepbound, specifically. One of the Temu Ozempics. I’ve fought my weight my entire life. As I get older,...
Guest column in Rascal News: Year Zed et al
I ve got a piece in Rascal news that might be of interest to my regular readers. You won t be surprised, probably, by what I have to say about the Year...
Monologue Games
Not all RPGs are a conversation I’ve had this maddening…koan, I guess, spinning around in my head for a couple weeks now. It came from a buddy being completely dismissive...
Omega and Alpha
Endings. So good. Best if served with a side of heartache. We wrapped up our Coriolis campaign this week! Suitably epic, grand scale events, razor thin margins. I left a few major...
2025 Inbox at the Club
It will come as no surprise that a lot more games show up here at IGRC World HQ than we can possibly play. But they all get read! Given I...
The Pretty Good Dark
I’ve been running a huge table – seven players! – of Free League’s new edition of Coriolis. Coriolis: The Great Dark is good, it’s fine. It’s a more focused take...
The New Novelty
Hello readers. It’s been a while. You may have noticed I haven’t put anything up for a few months. Things are good here, no worries. No medical emergencies, no family...