A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Family Day 1: Sticker activity book!thanks Grandy 🙂Day 2: Balloon Puzzle(Daddy helped)Day 2: Stroll on Blackstone BoulevardDay 3: Building a rover (thanks again, Grandy!)Day 3: Candyland!Day 4: Helping Daddy set up his officeDay 4: Virtual...
Priest by Matthew Colville My rating: 5 of 5 stars I figured I’d like this book, but I didn’t expect to fall in love! I didn’t breathe for almost the entire novel, but for diverse reasons. I was lost for much of the time, but in the kind of way...
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum My rating: 5 of 5 stars The very premise of this book sets it up for failure; how do you fairly explore the contradictory mess that is the (predominantly online) culture wars while still saying something...
This one isn’t particularly good – I mostly just cobbled together images I found on Google. Nonetheless, it turned out almost exactly as I’d imagined. It turns out that the kids were being delivered to a tribe of lycanthropes in a Faustian exchange for protection. The shape changers were surprisingly...
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek My rating: 5 of 5 stars Each Sinek book is better than the last. I’ve added this to my ‘required reading’ list for people who consider themselves leaders (or stewards of culture) in the business world. And, now that I think about it, outside...
I’ve spent the past week or so combing through ‘A Monster for Every Season’ resources, so the ‘Order of the Stick’ art style was firmly lodged into my brain for this one. For Dasia’s second (third?) adventure as a DM, a group of us are investigating a spate of missing...
We introduced Matt Colville‘s Strongholds & Followers rules into our work D&D game at the end of last year (while they were still in playtest). Not long ago, the final book was published, so I figured it was about time Vlad built one (or two). One mechanic that’s involved is...
We’ve been running our West Marches-style campaign for over a year now, and something’s become entirely too clear: this is a format best suited for experienced players. Unfortunately (though awesomely), the majority of players at work are new to the game. Where West Marches is meant to be a sandbox,...
Nicole’s primary character – a ranger/druid named Elokin – makes it a point to recruit at least one native fauna during each adventure. Often it leads to some memorable improv: horny British rhinos, a chipper-but-nihilistic grasshopper, and an Australian bull shark named Bruce (naturally) to name a few. During the...
Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Memoirs by comedians are a dime a dozen these days. Most are about comedy through the prism of their career, others are about their career through the prism of comedy. And there’s the rare memoir by a comedian...
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