We’ve continued playing Ryuutama the past few sessions. It’s been set on a mountainous island with great rocky cliffs and tiny villages hunkered beneath them, next to a big beautiful ocean. No fair guessing what island inspired this. It’s primarily … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
This video is pretty neat: I have a few quibbles — being focused largely on game designers, being focused largely on Metatopia, tending to have more white cis hetero guys as the video progresses (and potentially implications of that) — … Continue reading
When Ryuutama was being Kickstarted and it was sold as “Miyazaki-style fantasy”, I was pretty much sold right away. Hayao Miyazaki is very possibly my favorite director; Laputa City in the Sky is one of my favorite movies; Valley of … Continue reading
Wednesday night, I’m going to be on the Fresh Out of Tokens podcast. We’re planning to talk about all sorts of issues related to diversity and making it as a marginalized creator in gaming fandom. Fresh Out of Tokens is … Continue reading
Mnstf traditionally has a fallcon, usually in October or so. This was, for a long time, called the fall Minicon, which is part of why Minicon 51 is not actually the 51st anniversary of Minicon. Anyway, most years, there’s a … Continue reading
Over on her blog, Tanya D has made a plea for enough Patreon to support her. She really needs this. I’ve been on panels with Tanya before and she’s a wonderful person, doing some incredibly valuable work to support diversity … Continue reading
About a month ago, there was a tiny little con here in the Twin Cities called JOFCon. “JOF” stands for “journeyfen of fandom”. It’s a knowing take-off of the term “SMOF”, for “Secret Masters of Fandom”. SMOFs are (at least … Continue reading
The other FLGS (after going to two branches of Alchemy) I had to visit in Taiwan was 女巫店 Witch House. It’s not strictly an FLGS, I suppose. They sell games, and they’re plenty friendly. Primarily, though, Witch House is a … Continue reading
Metatopia is a con in New Jersey that’s aimed at indie game creators. I heard a few reports about last year’s con, and it sounded pretty amazing. The folks who run it also seem to have a pretty good sense … Continue reading
I was lucky enough to have Blade & Crown in the Indie Treasure Trove +2. The Bundle of Holding continues to be a great way to get a bunch of cool RPGs for very little money. The Indie Treasure Trove … Continue reading