Category: Writer’s Blog

For the past several months one of Dawn’s side projects has been trying to put together a game of Traveller, one of the most venerable and yet relatively obscure tabletop role-playing games out there. A science-fiction RPG almost as old […]
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Ancient history is a relative exaggeration when you’re talking ten years ago, but then again as a webcomic goes it could arguably qualify. Does anyone besides yours truly remember this page, one panel of which has come back around again […]
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Back in my Theatre Major days in college (and yes, we did spell it poncy like that despite being in ‘Merica), they taught us an important shout. That shout was “heads!” What did that mean? Basically to get the hell […]
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This is a huge topic and one I probably shouldn’t be broaching in a short blog piece, but in the midst of some crazy days dealing with my day job it’s been nice to just come home and bleed my […]
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Seems like there’s not a lot of good news coming out of Russia these days, but Dawn recently reminded me of this little gem from a couple years ago distributed by Youtube user “birchpunk” that depicted farm life in a […]
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Guilt in recreation activity… that’s a paradoxical concept, isn’t it? Stressing over something that’s supposed to help you relax? And yet it happens all the time to people, even without outside factors involved. Case in point, regular readers of this […]
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As our ranch crew prepares to sit down to dinner in-universe (though it won’t happen real-time for some weeks yet), this past weekend saw your humble proprietors at long last cleaning up their residence in order to host some proper […]
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In the wake of the Great Pandemic, my local friends have been reaching out feelers towards group play gatherings again. Not RPGs, but good ol’ friendly competitions — in person, usin’ them table thingies what aren’t even virtual. But what […]
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Ever experienced being the game master of a tabletop roleplaying game? If not, maybe you’ve been a player, or at least watched, or at very least let’s get to the important bit: If you want to tell a story your […]
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I heard a lovely portmanteau word just the other day that I hadn’t heard before. I don’t think it originated with my source, but still, I’m low-key mad I didn’t come up with it myself even as parallel evolution. Fandomentalist. […]
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So I have a confession regarding this week’s comic. I’ve had the idea of it in my head a long time because hey, there are these tacky things called “truck nuts” (spelling can vary depending on who’s trying to trademark […]
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We’ve all heard of “dumbing it down,” right? Well just in case, you can educate yourself on the idiom here. This is the classic creative conundrum of, say, me not using a lot of the words I just used on […]
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WonderCon 2023 is coming up the weekend after this one over in Anaheim, CA, and I’ll be part of my first panel discussion since before COVID. Nice, eh? David (Lucarelli) whipped that up for us and also gets credit for […]
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  So yeah, y’all probably knew this was coming. I waited until I got access to watch, and then I watched up through episode 5 (so I believe the halfway mark?) but it’s remained “on the rails” so to speak […]
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I woke up this morning to a sad bit of news. Dawn and I have been fans of a YouTube channel called Neebs Gaming for some time and today they announced one of their members had passed on. Tony Schnur, […]
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Funny word in an industry sense, isn’t it? “Independence.” In the geekosphere of pop culture creation, it’s usually taken to mean that you are beholden to no overlords, no company or collective, that has a say over what you produce […]
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After a few weeks you’d think I’d have plenty of backlogged experiences and observations to drone on about in this blog, and I do! But just at the moment I’m also suffering from a rather distracting stomachache, so I’m going […]
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Dawn and I watched Jordan Peele’s most recent film offering a couple weeks ago, and we liked it. I could therefore have just titled this “yup” and left it at that. A true “What Would Frank Do?” moment. But I’m […]
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Talking Black Friday of course. Dawn’s put together a sale of our merch between now and December 4th, because Black Friday as a single-day thing is only still relevant to people who want to trample each other into the unforgiving […]
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I am not what one might call a “tireless promoter.” In fact, I don’t think “tireless” has ever been an adjective that could be applied my way. I can’t even game into the wee hours the way I used to […]
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