As I’ve been looking back at my last 40 years in the tabletop hobby, especially the transition from playing at home to ...

It was a mix of game room, man cave, and den of iniquity, with a rotating crew of gamers, young and old, sitting at that ...

Welcome back to my 40-year retrospective as a gamer. If the early years were defined by beautiful chaos, 1993 was the pivot. At that time, my gaming schedule was highly irregular. We’d get together ...

Welcome back to my 40 Years a Gamer retrospective. In the last post, I looked at the first game I played. But today, I want to talk about the early years of playing tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG) ...

I just saw that Far West Redux is live on BackerKit, and it hit me with a wave of nostalgia. I was a backer of the original Kickstarter way back in 2011. If you know the lore of this project, you know ...

Nostalgia. We’ve been riding that wave for a while now. Torg Eternity arrived with an updated, cleaned-up, and easier-to-understand version of the original rules. I ran the Free RPG Day adventure in ...

It has been too long, but the stars have finally aligned (and we remembered the exact words this time). The Puerto Rico Role Players are officially resurrecting our beloved tradition. Geeknic 29: Back ...

Someone recently asked me when I started playing D&D. When I told them it was the mid-80s, their eyes lit up. “Wow! The 80s. You had the Stranger Things experience.” I stopped reflecting on it, and I ...

In Part 1, I talked about my love for Worlds Without Number and how it scratches that specific itch for fantasy d20 gaming. But what about everything else? What about pulp sci-fi, weird westerns, or ...

Preamble: This post is closely tied to a post I wrote during RPG a Day this year, for day 21, Unexpected. It inspired me to dig deeper into adventures I’ve run as a GM. It may rehash some of the same ...

Continuing my celebration of 40 years in this hobby, today I want to move from the “proto-history” I wrote about in my last post to the actual history. The meat and potatoes. The games themselves. As ...

Hello friends! Welcome to 2026. This year marks a special occasion for me. This coming July will mark the 40 th anniversary of the very first tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) session I played. My ...