Ben Rosenbloom's Boring Machine

Another day, another delve into the archive. Today I'm taking a look at Dokayt, an anthology of jewish ttrpgs.

Time for another delve! Hopefully without too much resistance (this is a joke about Heart's Delve procedure). Today, I'm reading the very-recent first-draft pdf release of Dagger in the Heart !

 It's time to go digging again! Today I'm reading through John Adamus's Noir World .

About a week ago, Sydney Icarus wrote about Conspicuous Mechanics , a way of thinking about rules in ttrpgs, particularly around dice and what I might call "action resolution." In a rare move for me, I've managed to have a thought in time for it to perhaps be relevant to the conversation, so as a little treat for myself I'm allowing myself a discourse post. Welcome to my theory swamp!

Welcome back to another Archive Delve! Today I'm looking at Boletus , a weird fantasy adventure / setting rpg, by Andrew of  Prey Species  ( who also runs a cool blog )!

Today, I'm playing  Toilet Skeleton by slasherepoch ! It's a little solo game about being a piece of environmental storytelling. The explicit reference is to the Fallout games (which I've mostly absorbed through my brothers), but I'm sure we all can imagine lots of funny and quirky examples from any number of games. I'm excited to try it out!

I don't imagine anyone will ever complain that I only read or write about the most fashionable or hot button topics of the contemporary moment. But I imagine it is still odd to be reviewing a book series that, to my eyes, has largely dropped out of the subcultural spotlight. Ah well. Such is my curse. The Terra Ignota series is in my mind once again for a couple of reasons - one, it was recommended to me very strongly by friends, and they continue to talk about it; two, I'm finally reading the Book of the New Sun, after having listened to Shelved by Genre's unit on those books (and they're cited as inspirational to Palmer, the author of Terra Ignota); and three, they keep coming up on a discord server I'm on, where most of the time, people are posting about how much they like them. I, unfortunately, did not like them. Even worse, I have not yet seen anyone online articulate exactly what it is that I did not like about them. Most of the online commentary I've see...