Ben Rosenbloom's Boring Machine

I've been plugging away at NEW BLOOD , my supplement for HEART: The City Beneath , and running some play-by-post games, and recently there was even a video review, so I think it's safe to say I'm a little heart pilled right now. Ah, sorry, I'm getting word that that's a different thing. Anyway, it's been a kind of busy month, actually, between updates. I've been really enjoying my time in Heart's system and setting! But I missed reading and writing about reading - so I thought I would take a look at some of the other stuff that's come out for Heart recently. Today, I'm taking a look through Misha Handman's Called to the Heart !

This past week featured some classic TTRPG discourse - notable not just for the eternal recurrence of topic, but that the leading luminary in the actual play/streaming space (Brennan Lee Mulligan) seemed to be wading in. I've largely stopped paying as much attention to this debate (in no small part because it's usually localized to Twitter, which I don't enjoy being on) but I do think it's fun to think, read, and talk about. I'm inching closer to writing the first part of that manifesto I've been threatening, and even if I recover my faculties and divert from that  particular madness, I think it would at least be fun to write something about it. At the very least, I think it would be fun to make my friends read it. Anyway, that's part of why I missed my usual window for a weekly delve, and why I think I'm reaching for something that advertises itself as philosophical. Today I'm reading Jesse Burneko's Dungeons & Dilemmas !

Another week, another archive delve! Today I'm taking a look at The Curse of the House of Rookwood  by Brian Bình and Michael Addison.

I'm nearing the end of the zines I'd highlighted for this first round of archive delving! Right now my plan is to finish up a few more, and then get to other blogging. Today, I'm reading Terror of the Stratosfiend #1 .

I'm back with another quick delve into the archive! More of a heroic jaunt, really. Today I'm reading through Our Queen Crumbles , by Jason Brown.

I'm back for another delve into the archive! I've been wrapped up with writing for NEW BLOOD and Daybreak on the Battlefield, as well as scheduling playtests, which has been eating up my ttrpg energy. But I've saved up enough to do a quick little read-through of Moonsailors , an offering from ZineQuest 2.

My weekly cycle was broken by illness, but I'm back at it again! This week I'm reading Barrow Keep: Den of Spies , an OSR-ish module from 2020. I read this a while back, but bounced off of it - in the intervening years, I've read, listened to, and played a lot more games and modules, including in the OSR vein, so I want to see if I can make better progress. Plus, it's got a Bathtub Review , which I put off reading because I didn't want it to influence my own, and I want to finally get to read it (Nova's reviews are fun and insightful, and one of the blogs that inspired me to start my own).