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2026

Scripts, plots, and expectations, or “narrative providence in a medium that does not work that way”original ↗
3 Sept 2026
Playing the formatoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
“Works on my machine,” or why it’s really hard to talk about RPGsoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
The Tactile Appeal, or, the weight of tangibilityoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026
Caring about characters, or “what do I even enjoy about roleplaying?”original ↗
4 Jan 2026

2025

The Game Master and the game as servantoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2025
The rules from the writingoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2025
Who signs their name? RPGs and authorshiporiginal ↗
11 Jun 2025
Winning and losing in the games you can’t winoriginal ↗
2 May 2025
The weight of the world, or, On GMingoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2025
Smoke, mirrors, and satisfactionoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2025

2024

Stunting, fictional positioning, and the tyranny of human intuitionoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2024
A callout post, I supposeoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2024
The Ghost Engine, or “shoving the infinitely-complex peg of human imagination into a square hole”original ↗
31 May 2024
New Year’s Resolution Mechanicsoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

Keywords, games-as-languages, and engines of meaningoriginal ↗
29 May 2023
Genre emulation, or “how can birds be real if our eyes aren’t real”original ↗
9 Mar 2023

2022

A gross perspective on gamesoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2022
“Fun” isn’t real and it can hurt youoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2022
So what was up with Champions?original ↗
8 Aug 2022
Exalted is pretty neat, y’alloriginal ↗
22 Jul 2022