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Homebrew: Urban Scrawl

The word Homebrew superimposed over the tops of a castle in winter.

The campaign I am calling “Paper Chasers” has the PCs as ‘retrieval experts,’ who are hunting down ancient texts and artifacts for the archmage Silence Frost. The players requested an episodic game with minimal overarching plot and a dash of Read more…


Homecoming: First Blood

The word Homebrew superimposed over the tops of a castle in winter.

The first step of the family D&D 5E campaign started with a terrified village and a missing child, leading to their first “dungeon” and the first glimpse of the threat that would be the focus of the campaign. Homebrew is Read more…


Homebrew: Chasing Papers

The word Homebrew superimposed over the tops of a castle in winter.

The second D&D game I’m going to be running is for three friends—including the best man from my wedding and his wife—who have been my core virtual gaming group since the pandemic. It started as a way to introduce RPGs—a Read more…


Homebrew: The Background

The word Homebrew superimposed over the tops of a castle in winter.

Homebrew is going to encompass posts relating to my own gaming rather than gaming products—which will be posted over on the SEP website. So, let me tell you about the game I’m running for family. Along with my playtest for Read more…


Crowdfunding Avoidance

Future soldier in abstract gunfight by Tithi Luadthong

As noted over on the SEP site, I have projects that might not get released because I need to crowdfund to get sufficient funds, and I’m not willing to jump into another crowdfunding campaign right now. Part of that is Read more…


Song of the Week: CFNY

Logo for CFNY FM, with the statement "the spirit of radio"

Yeah, so it’s not a song, but I feel that 102.1 in Toronto—CFNY—needs to be included. There were a ton of songs I never bought (I mean, even when I had a job, I had limited funds!) that I loved, Read more…


Song of the Week: Some Kinda Fun

The cover for the Teenage Head single Some Kinda Fun, which has the four band members looking up at the camera.

My memories of high school concerts—which I feel is unreliable—includes Teenage Head, and I think—but am not certain—that I had the single “Let’s Shake.” I am on much firmer ground with “Some Kinda Fun.” I have to give props to Read more…


Song of the Week: Goody Two Shoes

This is the cover art for the single Goody TwoShoes by the artist Adam Ant showing the artist posing with a rose

Adam Ant, formerly of the Ants  . . . And the Ants. Whatever. By the time I had clued in, he had left the Ants behind Let’s get this out of the way—appropriation. Yup, no doubt about it. He shouldn’t Read more…


Song of the Week: Don’t You Want Me

Welcome to 2025, by way of 1981! The Human League. For me, they were the sound of 1980s synth-pop. More than even the Eurythmics. “Don’t You Want Me” was the opening for me. I think I may have already had Read more…


My Christmas Screed

A Christmas tree with multi-coloured Christmas lights in the middle of a snow-covered collection of evergreens.

This compiles something I threw up on Bluesky because I was thinking about Christmas and what it means to me. I was thinking of a much spicier take–building on the transparency of the “war on Christmas” disinformation–but I (wisely?) decided Read more…