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(Header image from Zachary Kadolph on Unsplash) “What games are good for one-shots?” is a very common refrain in my circles, and I love to hear it. It means people are branching out, trying new things. It’s also a difficult question to make a generic response to. Often it is dependent on table...
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The first episode of my Top 100 Games series
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The second episode of my Top 100 Games series
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Episode 3 of my top 100 games of all time
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My previously paywalled bonus top 100 episode
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(Header image from Ben Griffiths on Unsplash) The Recommendation I think this is a must-own game. This gem is concise enough that you can probably read the base rules in less time than it will take to read this review, so you may as well go buy it, read it, play it, then come back and see if...
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(Header image by Alexandr Rusnac on Unsplash) Everything Everywhere All At Once is my favorite film. The clash of such an explosive, absurd multiverse epic colliding with the commonplace struggle of an immigrant family trying to file their taxes is not an obvious combination. I think it works...
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“The conversation that you have with the other players and with the rules create a story that couldn’t have existed in your head alone.”– Avery Alder, Monsterhearts 2 I think the reason many of us cling to dice in RPGs is so we can ensure the story is fluid, that there are twist and turns...
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(Header art is a Legend of Zelda illustration for Nintendo Power from Katsuya Terada) HEROISM. Spencer Campbell has done something very special with WYRM. During my extended stay in the OSR-sphere I have truly enjoyed being a dirty little guy going into a hole in the ground to get...
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Look. Like many of you, my brain has problems. And I can never, ever, ever say the name of this absolute banger of a game from Rowan, Rook and Decard without the supergroup also named Royal Blood popping into my head. I think it’s a feature not a bug, but the constant loop is important to how I am...
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(Photo by Avi Werde on Unsplash) Before we start, I want to note that Delta Green inherently is a game where you engage as armed operatives of the United States government. While I do not think the game explicitly paints these agents as heroes, disturbingly I would not be surprised to learn...
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(Photo by Anita Jankovic on Unsplash) Hello and welcome one and all to the 2026 Milk Awards: Known far and wide like the rising tide, here to there like the county fair, from your basement to your game store, you’ve heard it all before. You know it, you love it: The Milk Awards! It is our...
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(Header image by Daisy D on Unsplash) Gus the Dragon is a simple GMless game for up to three players written by an up-and-coming designer I often have the pleasure of collaborating with. The mechanics are simple: Together, choose a name and a character, always in the form [Name] the...
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(Header image is a trophy duck from this website) I have been dreading this review. Trophy The design is just so clean. You play treasure hunters cutting your way through a forest that will smother you. Anything risky is handled by a dice pool with the mixed successes we have come to know...
Michael / Chgowiz
Whooboy… Now I know why I like the 1977 LBBs – simple, quick and not a lot of thought, unless you wanted to deep dive into things. CT77 doesn’t have rules for grenades. That’s kind of funny, considering Marc Miller was an Army grunt like me, but… :shrug: One my players in my Battlestar Galactica...
Michael / Chgowiz
I’ve had this question occur a number of times in my campaigns and it just happened this week for my on-going Dungeon23 campaign. This campaign sticks to the 1974 OD&D rules, no supplements or other bits. If I use a reference, it’s usually going back to Chainmail to get inspiration and a sense...
Michael / Chgowiz
When I set out to run a game based on Battlestar Galactica, Classic Traveller was my first place to go to find a system that I could use to enable the setting. I’d never run CT, only dreamed about it back in 1978 as I read through the Little Black Books. With no experience, I turned to the...
Michael / Chgowiz
The stalwart Fleet Scouts cautiously approached the nervous human woman. She was dressed in homespun materials – leather-like, beaded and knotted. They had lured her out from hiding by singing the same melody she had been singing, as well as melodies from old Colonial nursery songs. She stepped...
Michael / Chgowiz
My game sessions these days run at about 2 to 2 1/2 hours, every other week. That’s just the reality of online/remote gaming and our busy lives. I’m grateful for the time I do get to play, and I definitely don’t want to waste players’ sessions! Recently, we had a very intense series of sessions...
Michael / Chgowiz
There may have been a scene recently in my AD&D campaign that looked a little like this… The PCs stumbled onto a map of a treasure location. The note that accompanied the map gave clues that this was a rich haul. “How hard could a few kobold bandits be?” thought the PCs and off they went… In...
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I’ll be honest, I really keep thinking if I blog what I’m doing now then that will be it, and I won’t have any content for next week. Hah! Every week just reminds me how many things I end up putting myself into so yeah, I just need to stop worrying about having content and just keep making...
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Hey All, Last post I talked about completing projects…and I’ve got an update on my First Order Stormtrooper helmet! 99% done! I just need to do a little more touchups, paint the vent silver, and add the lenses! Here’s what it looked like as I was touching it up: Hopefully...
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Hey All, Well this has been a week! Here’s to hoping President Biden can usher in some new progressive policies and finally have a government that takes the Coronavirus Pandemic seriously. All I want is my vaccination ASAP! Tryign to take my mind off everythign I’ve been throwing myself...
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Hey all. Happy New Year! This year I resolve to blog once a week again. Every Friday I will post what I’m working on. I’ve become creative again (I think…) and I want to put out to the world what I’m working on. Raspberry Pi StepMania Dance Pad Right now I’m working on a CNC’d...
Larry Davis
A recent obsession with retro gaming on Raspberry Pi using RetroPie led me to play through a few old favorites, starting of course with Wolfenstein 3D (and my subsequent work on Splitwolf). After making my way through history with Doom and Quake I, it was only natural that I load up Quake II... A...
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For anyone that knows me, Dance Dance Revolution and StepMania were a large part of my life years ago. It’s how I lost a ton of weight. 6 years ago was my first attempt to get StepMania running on a Raspberry Pi…and it was a horrible experience. Today I’m proud to say that StepMania runs...
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So, like my last post stated, I did some things while stuck at home. My absolute favorite project was this: I followed this guide (https://github.com/geaz/simplyRetro-D8) and built this awesome 3D printable desktop arcade cabinet. It of course uses a Raspberry Pi running RetroPi and...
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I built a Windows PC for playing Half-Life: Alyx
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Wolfenstein was the first 3D game I ever played, and of course, the first FPS I ever played. I fondly remember going upstairs and booting up DOS on our old 386. I'd type wolf, and after a few seconds and a couple memory checks, I'd be greeted with that triumphant, patriotic, MIDI theme...