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Power with Purpose in Role-Playing Games

Reframing the RPG Power Fantasy as Community Aspiration I. Introduction In The Dungeon Is a Detonator, we explored how the dungeon, long treated as a self-contained challenge, is in fact a rupture—a keystone event that destabilizes the world around it. It is not merely a location, but a catalyst:

Corey Deserved Her Own Movie

A Tribute to the Girl Who Wrote the Songs In the neon-soul canon of late-'80s teen films, Say Anything... is remembered as a gentle masterpiece. John Cusack, boombox aloft. Peter Gabriel, in full emotional crescendo. Lloyd Dobler, earnest and directionless and ready to follow love across oceans. But

Vacare

Vacare: Latin. To be empty, free. I used to think of "vacation" more in terms of where we're going and what we'll be doing there instead of what I'm vacating–the places, faces, tasks, and routines that I leave behind while galavanting

We Regret to Inform You That You Are Free

A number of my friends went through a “zine phase” in the mid 90’s and early 00’s, making and trading tiny publications for fun and no profit. Those pamphlets were as rough and handmade as they were heartfelt and vulnerable. Some of these folks eventually went on to

Two Playable Folktales

Nice Words Cost Extra A Playable Folktale of Civility, Latency, and Mirth Under Surveillance Ritual Opening Read aloud before beginning: When the Lords of the Cities quantified emotion and metered grace, they declared that civility added overhead. Kindness slowed systems. Mirth destabilized consensus. Thus, they taxed it all. We speak

The Dungeon Is a Detonator

Cascading Consequences in Adventure Design I. Introduction In the classic era of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), modules—pre-written adventures designed for dungeon masters (DMs) to run with minimal preparation—presented dungeons as self-contained challenges: pockets of monsters, traps, and treasure to be cleared and checked off the map.

Off to the Banner Peaks: Haute & Dangerous

A system-agnostic adventure for 3-5 players PREMISE A starship carrying the latest collection from the interplanar fashion conglomerate VOID™ has crashed in the mountains, creating a reality-warping site where fashion literally kills. The ship's quantum design engine—the "Wish Engine"—will fully activate in 2 hours

The Last Lantern

A diceless narrative game for solo or group play. Tone: Melancholic, reflective, mythic-realism. Materials: Just this page, a journal (optional), and time to drift. Roles * The Unintended Pilot: The player-character. No classes, just fragments. You arrive carrying nothing but memory and the ache of work. * The Dive (GM or Facilitator)

Normalizing the .380 ACP

There’s a peculiar insecurity in the handgun world: “Carry a .380? Good luck staying alive.” You’ll hear it at gun counters, on forums, and from tacticool enthusiasts who buy $2,000 pistols they can’t conceal or shoot well. It’s a macho myth that equates bigger calibers

A Ledgered Meal: Grasslands Barbecue, Hood River

Filed under: Gastronomy, Companion Tables, Pilgrimage of Smoke Location: Hood River, Oregon Date: April 2025 Companions: Wind, Memory, and a Portobello Burger with Gravitas Some meals you stumble into. Others, you prepare for like a minor rite. Grasslands Barbecue falls squarely in the second category. It doesn’t ask for