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Straight-forward gaming

If you're a player in a roleplaying game, you're pretty happy when you get to add a number to your character's attribute or skill. Your character becomes [potentially] more powerful, which is nice because the fantasy of being infallibly good at something is one of the fun things about most roleplayi...

I watched Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666, and this is my review of all 3 movies. I write movie reviews mostly as reminders to myself that I've seen a movie, so there's no serious critique happening here. This post does contain spoilers....

I backed the Labyrinth setting for Tales of the Valiant from Kobold Press on Kickstarter. Several months ago, my gaming group started playing through the Labyrinth Adventures campaign, starting with the first module The Lost Book of Mektar. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a rough start, but...

I'm running the Vile Secrets of Vulcoth campaign for Warhammer 40,000, and this is the battle report of the first scenario. The story of this campaign branches in two directions, so the choices of the Hero Army influences not only which scenario gets played, but also the enemies faced in the fin...

Little Wars is a book about wargaming, written in 1913 by HG Wells. This is my review of it, and it does contain spoilers (for a 100+ year old non-fiction rulebook for wargames.)

Many tabletop gamers get into a habit of defending their hobby because it's not uncommon for an onlooker to demand an...