So, first let me apologize for the lateness of this post – I’ve spent the last week moving, which has completely drained my energy, and I haven’t written a damn thing. We ended up with a drop-in player this past…
50 Fathoms: Session 29
Here’s a problem with long-running campaigns: even with the blog to help me remember what we have and haven’t done, there is a pretty high number of subplots and ongoing threads to keep track of. I basically have a laundry…
Rose and Thorn: Session 13
Things I love as a DM: when my players ignore encounters, assuming they know what’s going to happen when they are, in fact, incorrect. When my players assume facts about the world based on previous games they’ve played when they…
Girl Over Paris by Gwenda Bond, Kate Leth, and Ming Doyle
So, when this miniseries was announced, I just about died of excitement. I mean, Gwenda Bond, whose books I love, Kate Leth, whose books I love, and Ming Doyle, whose art I love. There’s basically no better team in my…
Rose and Thorn: Session 12
D&D is a good thing when you’ve had an otherwise bad day. Even when I walk in super frazzled and fairly unprepared, even by my own standards, I think we still manage to make a pretty good go of it.…
Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
This novella is the second installment in the Binti series, and in an unusual turn of events for my recent reviews, I’ve actually already read the first one (and loved it). In fact, I loved the first one so much,…