This week, in the Bathtub, I take a look at nostalgic parody Vileplume Mountain! idlecartulary.com/2026/06/08/b...
100% this. I wrote about this in the context of TTRPGs here idlecartulary.com/2025/04/08/w...
Now that the discourse has died down, and my birding has lessened, I want to talk about lists in rpgs.
I like what both sides of the debate make. So, like everything else, "good" isn't about which side you choose but how you execute the idea. If you choose to use lists, use them well.
This is the only Odyssey adaptation that understands that the hero is an impulsive himbo who deserves his many ass whoopings.
It is entirely believable that this Odysseus would get a bunch of his guys turned into pigs by a sexy witch.
This year for our Appx. N Jam we have a bunch of really awesome judges!
Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is a cool game about cool characters and I'm making a cool stretch goal about cool cars and cool places to race and wreck them. Check it out.
Today, I read Fatherfog, the first new RPG from Tuesday Knight Games in 8 years — and it's set in a strange world filled with fog, where you're guided by ropes and haunted by fairy-tales. Is it Fatherfog going to be the next Mothership? Find out! idlecartulary.com/2026/05/27/i...
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…
User-friendly definitions, tips, and tricks for graphic design in rpgs.
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Lately I’ve read a bunch of modules that feel like they weren’t fully baked. The scope story they were trying to tell was greater than their page count. I was left wishing there was more, despite a…
I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…
