John Farrell is an affordable housing attorney living in West Chester Pennsylvania. He once travelled the weird west as Carrie A. Nation in Joker's Wild at: https://jokerswildpodcast.weebly.com/
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass is among the greatest gifts that came out of RPGmaker’s toolsets, delivering an adventure with unmatched quality in its narrative design, pacing, combat, aesthetics, and music. While it takes clear inspiration from Earthbound, Jimmy (as I’ll refer to the game for brevity) forges
Unsound doesn’t have to tell you that it’s based on a true story. Never have I seen something so real. Never has a film captured the complex, contradictory feelings only a caretaker for a parent with mental health issues could understand. Darious Britt’s independent feature is a
Daggerheart is Darrington Press’ answer to D&D. Hasbro’s leadership just concluded a year of showing active disdain for their partners and customers, spurring Darrington and others to make their own way and steer their audience towards new horizons. Daggerheart’s playtest document is out, giving us a
Digital RPG tools are changing the landscape of RPGs, in ways both expected and surprising. I spoke with Adam Bradford, Chief Development Officer at Demiplane and Co-Founder of D&D Beyond, about that landscape, his place in it, and the future of tabletop gaming. I use this descriptor with
After spending a few years with various virtual tabletops and being less than impressed, my opinion started to turn early into the demo I received with Demiplane’s app for Free League’s Alien RPG. One of many Demiplane’s growing line of RPG apps, including Paizo games, Avatar Legends,
By looking deep into film history, Austin-based artist Eric Power found the template for a style of filmmaking unlike anything released in the past century. The story begins in 1926 ago, with a female director forgotten to most modern audiences. Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the
Nerdburger Games has been lauded many times for its achievements in design, covering adventure and parody, group, GM-less, and solo, along with more to come in the future. Craig Campbell, creator and lead designer, gave his insight on the nature of the market for a small press publisher, and our
Continuing my series of interviews with tabletop designers, I move from the therapeutic model of design to M. Allen Hall, a more recent entrant into the market. Starting out as a fantasy author, he was able to share insights on the differences in competition and production in the markets, and
