Category: general

I ran 49 games in 2025. That’s more or less the plan for 2026, as well. We don’t play every week, but then there are weeks with up to three games, and there are already nine games scheduled just for January.

I ran a total of 49 RPG sessions in 2025 for a total of 22 players, across 16 different games. How did it go?

All roleplaying games have a magic circle – there can’t be a game without. But not all magic circles are created equal. You can be intentional about setting up your magic circle, and in doing so, make it significantly more impactful.

The 2024 game plan was largely successful, and we had a strong year of roleplaying games. I hope to replicate that with a very different 2025. The calendar will be built around running Masks of Nyarlathotep.

A common complaint from players and game masters alike is that a specific adventure for a roleplaying game is “railroaded”. They mean that the players lack agency – that the GM is forcing them to act as an audience to the GM’s script. This is then frowned upon as bad GMing.

They had me at “a quiet roleplaying game”. All roleplaying games are a conversation, whether that’s at the table or over videochat – how does a quiet roleplaying game even work?

I am forty five years old. I’ve been playing tabletop roleplaying games for thirty five years. I am middle aged, and increasingly aware of my limited time on Earth.