All Posts
- 2026-08-19 — What thirty below does to a Tuesday (Essay)
- 2026-08-06 — The First Law made me root for a torturer, which is the whole point (Book review)
- 2026-07-31 — Fate of the Fellowship is Matt Leacock finally cracking co-op Tolkien (Game review)
- 2026-07-27 — Against playing games alone, mostly (Essay)
- 2026-07-23 — The forty minute rule (Essay)
- 2026-07-14 — Dune (GF9) is still the negotiation game to beat, forty-plus years on (Game review)
- 2026-07-07 — The Study of Instinct is seventy years old and still reframes how I watch birds (Book review)
- 2026-07-03 — Ankh: Gods of Egypt makes area control feel merciful, mostly (Game review)
- 2026-07-02 — The Master and His Emissary took me two attempts and a whole notebook (Book review)
- 2026-06-09 — Arkham Horror: The Card Game is the hobby I didn't budget for (Game review)
- 2026-06-01 — The Grace of Kings is silkpunk epic fantasy that actually earns the label (Book review)
- 2026-05-05 — Godtear is a miniatures game for people who hate miniatures games (Game review)
- 2026-04-28 — The Old King's Crown asks a lot of your table and mostly gets it (Game review)
- 2026-04-16 — Teaching Ines a game she hated, and what I got wrong (Essay)
- 2026-04-13 — Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion doesn't need the whole shelf (Game review)
- 2026-04-12 — Explaining base rates with a card game, because nothing else was working (Essay)
- 2026-03-22 — The Stars Are Legion is the grossest, most tender space opera I've read (Book review)
- 2026-03-13 — Summoner Wars Master Set proves the 2009 original still holds up (Game review)
- 2026-03-10 — Ficciones and the specific joy of a book that outsmarts you (Book review)
- 2026-02-28 — The index card thing (Essay)
- 2026-02-25 — The game I evangelized that flopped with everyone else (Essay)
- 2026-02-23 — Sea Salt and Paper is the best fifteen minutes in my whole collection (Game review)
- 2026-02-17 — Why I still buy physical books, an unfashionable defense (Essay)
- 2026-02-13 — The Omelas conversation I keep having at work (Essay)
- 2026-02-06 — The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas ruined my week in eight pages (Book review)
- 2026-01-28 — Thinking, Fast and Slow explained why I'm bad at board games in one chapter (Book review)
- 2026-01-25 — Aeon's End fixed the one thing I hate about deckbuilders (Game review)
- 2026-01-17 — Rotating whose house it is (Essay)
- 2026-01-09 — His Dark Materials still makes me want to fight organized religion at age thirty (Book review)
- 2025-12-19 — The Ibis Trilogy is the historical epic I didn't know I needed (Book review)