Archive for July, 2026

RPG Review: Everspark

Thursday, July 30th, 2026

Earlier in my “career” as an “reviewer,” I looked at some tiny, rules-light games that had less-than-stellar tips on how to GM systems based on descriptors and moonbeams. It’s always felt to me that only providing one or two paragraphs of “here’s a prompt, roll with it, GLHF” is a disservice to new or casual […]

A Less-than-Heroic Review of Twilight Sword, Part Two

Sunday, July 12th, 2026

For Part One, clicketh yon linketh. The Gamemaster (2020, Documentary) We get two long skinny pages about how to be a GM. It’s almost exactly like every other “how to GM” section in the universe. The only unusual tool introduced here is the Countdown Roll. If something big is going on in the background (NPCs […]

A Less-than-Heroic Review of Twilight Sword, Part One

Friday, July 10th, 2026

The Two Little Mice guys (Household, Outgunned, etc.) are at it again. Twilight Sword is what happens when an RPG designer plays Breath of the Wild and grabs their screen like Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley, screaming, “I WANT THIS!” Twilight Sword is published by Free League Publishing. It came out literally a […]

Nimble TTRPG: An Overview, Part Six

Tuesday, July 7th, 2026

If you’ve just bumbled in here and wonder what the what, check out Part One here. You’ll get back here eventually. The Summing-Uppening Zoom zoom zoom in the boom boom The Past, Extracted While writing this review, I’ve done some research online to see what other people think of Nimble. The response is varied. The […]

Nimble TTRPG: An Overview, Part Five

Saturday, July 4th, 2026

If Bing wants you to start reading on this page, pop on over to Part One instead. Thank you for flying CCXP Air. Game Master’s Guide You can’t have your pudding if you don’t have a GM All right, entering the home stretch. The GM’s Guide is the longest book in the Nimble trilogy, so […]