The middle distant future. Probably in space for Mothership. Automation has concentrated even more wealth among the owning class in feuding dynasties that would make a 21st century mere billionaire drool. For everyone else, 99% of work more desirable than indentured undercity labor consists of increasingly niche and often hazardous contractor gig labor. Besides the […]
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I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually a lot, so I don’t take these very seriously. But I can talk about its choices […]
Exploring the city's best cocktail experiences.
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Looking for answers in all the wrong places.
Here’s a piece of bespoke terminology that I often teach my players: low stakes test. It’s not at all unusual for a roleplaying game or storytelling game to gives PCs a resource that they can use to improve their action checks. This might be a meta-currency, charges from a magical item, or some kind of […]
The colony ship Ceres has been found after three centuries lost in space. Enter freely, and of your own will...
Mothership studio swaps empty space for creeping mists.
Originally published February 28th 2025
I wanted there to be more playable material for spelljammer. So I made this horrific dungeon heavy on cosmic horror metamorphosis that doesn't feature mindflayers.
Here is a pdf if you wanna print it.
And a plain text version.
Edit: I've not cleaned it up and provided versions for mothership and dungeon crawl classics.
Originally published October 18th 2022
I have been interested in playing a more survival horror themed game recently. The sort of game where a character has to survive one really bad week instead of one super bad night. A core part of this sort of game that will take place over a timeframe like that is resource tracking. Here are my simple rules for A slot based encumbrance system for…
Originally Published May 9th 2022
In the space fairing, future humanity was faced with one massive problem humans evolved on earth. While we may be able to create artificial gravity in empty space making an artificial gravity field large enough to encapsulate a planet is far beyond what is possible with current power generation technology. We soon used our mastery of the genome to create humans…
Originally Published October 23rd 2021
As someone who collects patches, I love the random patch generator. I decided to think up 400 more to have an even more varied set of outcomes for character creation. These compiled with the ones from the core book can make a d500 Chart for patches.
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. […]
It does not shy away from the things many of us are always thinking about when we interact with others, like, “Who are you voting for?” and “What does being a man mean to you?”
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. […]
A full-spoiler explanation as to why queer fans like me felt so disappointed by Bayonetta 3
The talkback is out, the duology is complete.
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. […]