Who hasn’t had the occasional impulse to cause the extinction of the human race? Never had that stray thought that maybe we’ve made a bit too much of a mess of the world and need to exit stage left? And since we live in fear of biological warfare or pandemics,…
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The next in my “what I love to play” series is a bit more obscure than the previous ones. It’s one my family encountered many years ago and have always kept around, and I loved it so much that I acquired my own copy when I moved out on my…
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As I’m a writer by both passion and profession, it might not surprise you that I enjoy word games. Sure, I enjoy a good game of Scrabble or other vocabulary games…but I also enjoy games that go beyond just a word’s definition and bring in a more interpretive element. So,…
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Ever get together with family or close friends to play a game and, somewhere in the middle of play, you looked at another player-someone you once trusted and believed would always have your back-and said, “I can’t believe you would do that to me! Who are you?” Yeah. Playing Cutthroat…
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Since I’m going to Gen Con 50 in a couple weeks, I’ve kicked off a month-long blog series highlighting some of my favorite tabletop games. If you’re heading to Gen Con, be sure to check out the Writer’s Symposium, where I and at least a couple dozen other authors will…
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This month, I’m heading to Gen Con to be part of the Writer’s Symposium! For those who don’t know, Gen Con is an enormous convention focused on gaming-mostly of the tabletop sort (boards, cards, dice, etc.), but including programming on e-games, LARPing, and, of course, roleplaying. I’ve been a lifelong…
2 CommentsA lot’s been going on on Joshville lately. (Don’t worry. I Google-mapped both Joshtown and Joshville and found no results). It’s been just over a month since I officially up and moved from Denver to Seattle (Redmond, technically) to work for Paizo as an editor. Not regretting it one bit, though…
Leave a CommentSo. This is unexpected. For nearly the past five years, I’ve been doing the freelance writing/author gig full-time. It was a career I built up over a goodly while, and it gave me plenty of freedom, variety, and satisfaction in my work. It also let me focus on things like…
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