In 2005, I got divorced. With my life shifting again, I began spending much more time at Sammy’s house. I started dropping in on the other groups playing there and hanging out with fellow gamers away ...

Welcome back to my 40-year retrospective as a gamer.

The new supplement for SWN is titled Proteus Sector: A Gazetteer for Stars Without Number.

Welcome back to my 40 Years a Gamer retrospective. In the last post, I looked at the first game I played. But today, I want to talk about the early years of playing tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG) ...

I’ve always maintained that crowdfunding isn’t a pre-order store; it’s an investment in a vision and a creator. Through the long journey of Far West, I got to know Gareth. I only met him once in the ...

Nostalgia. We’ve been riding that wave for a while now. Torg Eternity arrived with an updated, cleaned-up, and easier-to-understand version of the original rules. I ran the Free RPG Day adventure in ...

It has been too long, but the stars have finally aligned (and we remembered the exact words this time). The Puerto Rico Role Players are officially resurrecting our beloved tradition. Geeknic 29: Back ...

Someone recently asked me when I started playing D&D. When I told them it was the mid-80s, their eyes lit up. “Wow! The 80s. You had the Stranger Things experience.” I stopped reflecting on it, and I ...

In Part 1, I talked about my love for Worlds Without Number and how it scratches that specific itch for fantasy d20 gaming. But what about everything else? What about pulp sci-fi, weird westerns, or ...

Preamble: This post is closely tied to a post I wrote during RPG a Day this year, for day 21, Unexpected. It inspired me to dig deeper into adventures I’ve run as a GM. It may rehash some of the same ...

Continuing my celebration of 40 years in this hobby, today I want to move from the “proto-history” I wrote about in my last post to the actual history. The meat and potatoes. The games themselves. As ...

Hello friends! Welcome to 2026. This year marks a special occasion for me. This coming July will mark the 40 th anniversary of the very first tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) session I played. My ...