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  • Tékumel Thursday: The City Half As Old As The World

    One of the interesting aspects of Empire of the Petal Throne is that it includes the first city map for a roleplaying game, the map of the city of Jakálla.  (The first fully-detailed city setting, The City-State of the Invincible Overlord, was published by Judges Guild in 1976, a year after Empire of the Petal……

  • Learning How to Bake

    The chocolate chip cookies were exactly golden-brown and hot from the oven. Using an oven mitt, I took the cookie sheet out, slipped the parchment paper and the dozen cookies onto a cooking rack.  In another few minutes we’d have cookies and tall glasses of cold milk.  For now, though, we would wait until they……

  • Revisiting The Morrow Project

    The Morrow Project is one of my favorite tabletop roleplaying games. Some of this is clearly nostalgia; I played it when I was in college back in the 1980s, and I met my partner Lynn through my gaming group. Some of it is related to my academic and personal study of nuclear war – something……