I absolutely love the board game Pandemic. It was one of the first "serious" board games I played, after Betrayal at the House on the Hill. It is still one of my favorites. It is challenging but winnable. The system is easy to understand, but you can get

Recently, I have been extremely into the video game Suzerain, by Torpor Games. I've described it to friends as "the most complicated Choose-Your-Own-Adventure ever." In it, you play as the president of a fictional country in a fictionalized version that takes inspiration from Central and Eastern

Since its release in September, I have been playing a lot of Frostpunk 2, a post-apocalyptic survival city-builder video game... so excuse me while this blog briefly becomes a video game blog. And while Frostpunk is an entirely different genre than most TTRPGs, except maybe The Quiet Year, it still

Something a little bit different today. This blog is all about using history (including historical understandings of things like religion and folklore) and using that to inform and inspire roleplaying. In the past, I've looked at some examples of media as components of larger posts, from George RR