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Something From Nothing 1: Initial Ideas
Last week I published my random adventure title generator, which very quickly spawned a random adventure jam that’s running from September until January 1st. The idea is that you use the generator to create a title and then use that title as inspiration to write an adventure for whatever system you want. Simple enough. This […]
Systems Of Transit
~5 minute read Imagine: You’re 35. You don’t have a driver’s license. When you were 18 you moved to the city, and you’ve lived in the same 10 mile radius ever since. Any time you wanted to go anywhere, do anything, have an experience outside the same rain-slick streets you call home, that meant public […]
A Memory Of A Vampire
2440 words. 10 minute read. Content Warning: The essay touches briefly on an account of an abusive relationship, and gaslighting. It also contains spoilers for Tim Hutching’s Thousand Year Old Vampire and the companion volume. My relationship with memory is a strange, intimate, frustrating one. One the one hand, my memory is excellent. On the […]
Naming The Faceless: Burning Wheel
Here’s what I know about Burning Wheel. Mouse Guard is based on it and I like Mouse Guard a lot It’s got some kind of lifepath character creation system The book on my shelf is still wrapped in the plastic it came in when I bought it That’s it. I don’t even know whether the […]
Songbirds by Batts
Let’s not bury the lede – I’m delighted to announce that Loot The Room is published Batts’ Songbirds in print for the first time in the UK! Batts is one of my favourite designers who is responsible for some of the most original, thoughtful, and beautiful games I’ve ever played – things like The Wizards […]