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…
Author: Jennifer Kathleen
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,…
Diving Into Indie RPGs
So, for a while now, I’ve been making more of an effort to seek out and play more indie RPGs, ones that aren’t the big names and aren’t put out by the big publishers. Games like Dungeons & Dragons and…
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
It’s probably for the best that I only end up reading a book like this every three to five years. Not that I intend to space them out that way, or even really know what I’m getting into when I…
Invasive by Chuck Wendig
About two months ago, I had a small ant infestation in my apartment. I’d bought a houseplant that brought some of the pests with it and it took me a couple of weeks to wipe them all out. Mercifully there…
Wonder Woman: A Return to Compassion
There’s a quote from Gail Simone (a very well-regarded comic writer) that’s been going around a lot since the new Wonder Woman movie came out. “If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve…