The process of co-creating, co-writing, and, most importantly, playing MonkeyDome blew my fucking mind.

It was a horrible mess. Gray matter everywhere.

Took me a whole week to piece it all back together, which was a feat due to my complete lack of king’s horses or king’s men.

This festering wound in my skull, along with a particularly eye-opening and downright thrilling Western mod of MonkeyDome we played, dead tired, on the train to JiffyCon laid the groundwork for a new game I’m tentatively calling Swords Without Master (or Sword Buddies, who knows.)

A Tale of Two Rogues

Over the past few months, I have been immensely enjoying Fritz Leiber’s Lankhmar series. Some of the stories are distant memories recalled from the mists of my youth; many of them, brand new. These books rekindled in me the lusty fires of sword & sorcery. And what’s more, I recognized my gaming desires tucked inside the text: a tantalizing blend of humor, thrills, and wonder. I had discovered that, perhaps not by accident, I had grown into the fiction that gave birth to this hobby. (more…)