Words Upon Worlds

It may be apparent, because this is the first post in about two years, but his blog is long dead. However, I do have another blog, called Words Upon Worlds, where I post free RPG setting content (mostly system neutral) each week. That’s also where I announce any publications I’ve worked on, and wil occasionally …

HP/MP Restored, But You’re Still Hungry *grumble sound*

The title comes from Chrono Trigger, which is, as far as I can tell, the best JRPG ever made. The title came to me while I was thinking about healing in D&D 5e, because it has a very “restore your hp by sleeping at an inn,” JRPG feel to me. Let me explain. So in …

TableTop is Back!

Season three of Wil Wheaton’s TableTop started yesterday, and that’s awesome. I’m a huge fan of the show and I contributed to the IndieGoGo campaign to fund this season, so I’m really excited to finally be able to watch new episodes again. I watched the first episode, and then went back to watch some of …

The Story So Far

I struggled to decide what to call this post. My first instinct was “Back in Black,” but I’m not that big of an AC/DC fan, which led me to “It’s Been a Long Time” because I am a big Led Zeppelin fan, but then I decided to get away from song references and go with …

Welcome to Night Vale

Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast from Commonplace Books. It’s a community radio broadcast from a fictional town in the American Southwest called Night Vale, where pretty much any kind of weird thing you can imagine happens. I’ve five episodes in, each are about 22 minutes, and they’re amazing. I have a soft spot …

Fandom = Participation

The act of consumption, specifically of popular culture, gets criticized a lot, especially be elitists (sometimes masquerading as populists). The basic logic goes that consumption is mindless and simply a tool used by the capitalist oppressing class to lull the masses into a false sense of happiness, so we don’t notice that they’re oppressing us. …