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Let's Read: The Player's Guide to the Western Reached (Shadowdark RPG)

 Let’s read through and annotate my PDF copy of the Western Reaches, the first major content release from the latest Kickstarter. The GM’s book is more interesting to me, but it’s not out yet. Key (++) Love it (+) Like it (-) Meh (x) Dislike it (+) Front cover. The art is the same black-and-white pen-and-ink drawing style that Shadowdark is famous for. The cover of the player’s book is half of a complete image that is only visible once this book and its GM’s book sibling are placed side by side. Sadly, I don’t have that book. (+) The map of the western reaches. All of the Cursed Scroll regions have been shoved together in an incongruent map that, I suspect, is less than 100 miles from top to bottom. Despite its small size (and minimal keying, if the Cursed Scrolls are any indication), it should provide plenty of fertile soil for GMs to run games. (-) Nonsensical neighboring terrain. In the north, we have Fantasy Scandinavia. In the south, we have the Sahara. It doesn’t r...
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A Shifting Perspective on RPGs

 If you had asked me ten years ago what roleplaying was, I would have given you a detailed answer, likely delving into how it’s an “infinite” game that can go on forever, bounded only by your imagination. These days, I have a different perspective.
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A Note on AI

 In case anyone was wondering, I don't use AI to write these blogs. Since Google and every other AI company are scraping the internet for content and providing text-only summaries, I figured I'd stop adding images to my posts. Making this blog look fun and image-heavy takes a lot of time and attention away from what I want to do, which is posting my thoughts with minimal editing.
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Let's Read: The Dolmenwood Player's Book

  “A piece of sharp, rusty metal dipped in ice cream.” That’s how I came to describe the setting of Dolmenwood after much reading and writing out these readthroughs. While the setting may at first appear to be a fantastical realm of fairies and cute talking animals, in truth, there’s a dark edge to this world that is not always apparent.
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