Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad.
Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
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Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
PAXsims recently posted an interesting summary, with commentary, on the NYT piece on Why did Strait of Hormuz wargames go unheeded?
https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/nyt-why-did-strait-of-hormuz-wargames-go-unheeded/
Echoes of my Hobby Games Recce piece from February: “Exploring Outcomes & Inaction.”
http://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2026/02/exploring-outcomes-inaction.html
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
RIP Marjane Satrapi.
Her quote about our similarities with ordinary Iranians inspired me to read Persepolis, a frightening and somber account of state violence and ideology infecting society. It helped put the Iranian revolution and American authoritarianism in perspective.
Sic transit mundus.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Spent part of today wandering the Manassas #AmericanCivilWar #battlefield, walking along the site of the Union artillery batteries on Henry Hill, refreshing my memory examining artillery exhibits, and overall enjoying a cool breeze on a bright day before the #VA summer heat/humidity sets in.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Spent the weekend working on our wattle-enclosed moon #garden. Cut a tulip poplar for the gate posts, then mounted the gate frame and started wattling it with trimmed poplar branches. Still more work to do on the wattle fence, though the central window and side arches are framed.
Alas, strained my wrist trimming things with two pairs of the crummiest pruning shears. (One actually broke.) So not much #writing for me today as I give my wrist a break.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Caught our kitten Jago in a rare moment where he wasn’t racing around, taking a break from playing with his crinkly zebra-themed toy. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
#HobbyGamesRecce
As an advocate of #GamesForLearning, I value games that inspire us to learn how better to cope with reality. Games help us learn to discern and evaluate facts we consider when we estimate a situation and plan a course of action for the challenges we face on various levels.
https://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2026/05/discerning-reality-in-fog-of-war.html
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
My son’s high school lets out on Thursday. We’ve already discussed our summertime activities, including many centered around #GamesForLearning and #history, from day trips and afternoon games to a long-term historical game design project of his own choosing.
https://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2026/05/game-aspirations-for-summer.html
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Our kitten Jago has been with us a little more than a month and is settling in, both in the household terrain and with his two older sisters. One of his favorite spots? Atop the shag-plush-covered cat tower, where he can survey the living room and watch the hummingbirds outside the window.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Noble Knight Games is running its Massive Spring Sale! Already made an order for some summertime game materials at better-than-usual prices. Always feels good to give some used games new life...and splurge on some recent brand-new games.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
#HobbyGamesRecce
Like any media based on #history, games can portray broad events as well as more relatable personal stories. When using #GamesForLearning we can gain a more empathetic perspective of those who lived through that history and rose to the challenges imposed upon them.
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https://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-personal-view-of-sweeping-events.html
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
#HobbyGamesRecce
In experimenting with different approaches to #TTRPG adventure design I look back in history at the earliest days of #wargames for some inspiration about the idea of scenarios, or the “General idea,” laying the foundations for players to explore the situation on their own.
https://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2026/05/scenarios-general-idea.html
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Last week we brought this fellow into our home, almost 3 month-old Jago, from the Cville SPCA shelter. Filled with energy and wonder, contrasted with frequent naps, he’s proving an orange ball of joy. He’s isolated in the guest room; his older sisters are warily interested in his presence.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad. Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.