Castles Up Close

I can’t believe I haven’t written about this yet. It’s possible you read this blog and don’t know that I went to Germany in February. Liz and I spent a glorious week touring the castles along the Rhine. It was unreal. Seeing a beautiful land with a dear friend is always a pleasure. Seeing motherfucking CASTLES from THE YEAR 1200 with one of my favourite adventuring companions in the...

The Couple That Games Toge...

It’s February and Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so I’m going to spend some time blogging about love and relationships. I started gaming in high school, not long before I met my the man who would become my husband (his name is Kennon and he’s pretty awesome). My interest in gaming, really, is how we got together. A mutual friend who went to college with him invited me...

Game Turducken: Launching ...

This November, I started playing Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers on Steam. If you follow me on twitter, you may remember that I referred to this as #eggquest. I had a fun time playing it, and one reason for that was DOTP’s cutscenes including lore from the Magic universe. In one of them, the game informs you that Ravnica is a  world covered in city. I remarked on how cool that...

Merry Christmas from Chara...

Hello, our lovely readers. Today, we’re excited to give you a Christmas present! A Fiasco playset written by Lyndsay and myself. It’s called And To All A Good Night and it’s inspired by our Christmases growing up in small, rural towns, as well as some of our favorite holiday movies. It was a lot of fun to write and, I hope, you’ll have a lot of fun reading it (and playing it!). You...

You’ve Been Given a ...

So, newly enlightened people. I’m happy #1reasonwhy opened your eyes to the existence of sexism. But I’ll admit I feel the same irritated foreboding every time this happens on a social network: that you will move on, and only be enlightened again when this happens another time. You won’t be there to answer questions and deflect trolls. You’ll be asking questions all over...

It’s Time to Take Out the ...

One of the reasons that Lyndsay and I started this blog is because we’re invested in making gaming better. And that means making gaming safer and more welcoming. The #1reasonwhy hashtag highlighted why, on many levels, the hobby isn’t where we’d like to see it… and Angie from Growing Up Gamers agrees. Below, she shares a personal story about how trash talking and violent language...

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