UFO is a great game from 1994. Possibly the first, great turn-based tactics game.

I have a confession to make. I’ve been kinda washed this past year. Read too much Substack-slop and now I’m getting rusty on my actual pet topics. So, I’m getting back into reading books again. The first book I’m reading is Slow Down by Kohei Saito – essentially a quick rundown of degrowth and all the arguments related to it. In short, the book is about the climate crisis and how the most common approaches to tackling it (green technologies, Green New Deals, etc.) are completely unserious and…

A collection of 103 classic games adapted for E-Ink screens, like Kindle’s. Free and open source.

A look at how to use the Gamepad API to drive a website with a game controller, and some tips for designing for the big picture.

How does it actually work, and what are your options? I found this slightly fiddly so I thought I'd arrange it differently to try to make more sense of it.

DEVON IZARA 3 3/4-Inch Debut The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch basic figure Item No.: Asst. G2786 No. G2625 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: #408 Includes: Lightsaber, hilt, cape Action Feature: Removable hat Retail: $19.99 Availability: August 20206 Appearances: Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord Bio: On the run from the Empire with her Jedi Master, Devon is a well-trained and savvy Padawan, adept with her blue lightsaber. Her desire to take action sometimes conflicts with her master's wish to stay…

Listen to this episode here. Further Reading Beyond the Pale, Tannic, Landmark, Hidden, Secret Socials Amanda P. on Bluesky and at Weird Wonder Sam on Bluesky and itch The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey, and our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show! Credits Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our…

For today's installment of Trick or Treat Through 31 Days of Toy Terror I'm finishing up Trick or Treat Studios' Day of the Dead line by taking a look at Dr. Sarah Bowman, the film's primary protagonist and someone who can fight the other zombies in the line. She's a solid choice for the line due to her role in the film, played by actress Lori Cardille, though I do have to admit that she's the least interesting of the figures since she's not a zombie and she doesn't rip apart like Capt. Henry…

Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game is a spin off of the hugely successful Terraforming Mars. The background story is the same. You are mega corporations working on making Mars habitable. Three things need to be achieved. You need to create oceans. You need to increase the atmospheric temperature. You need to increase the oxygen level. Once all three are achieved, the game ends,

In the annals of movies (and merchandise) about Mythical Beasts—Mothmen, Chupacabras, Big Foot (is the plural Big Feet?), Loch Ness Monsters (though I think there’s only one), even the occasional Elvis sighting—we can now add a found-footage film, titled Frogman, about this very large…Frog monster, which supposedly lurks in the scenery around Loveland, Ohio. Loveland, OH, incidentally, is a real place; and the Loveland Frog Legend is, qua legend, also ‘real,’ its few, dubious sightings going…

When Porsche announced its Porsche 911 NFT project at Art Basel Miami in 2022, it promised holders "he opportunity to co-create Porsche's future in the Web3 universe". Turns out there wasn't much to that future.After bungling the mint, selling fewer than 2,000 of the planned 7,500 NFTs after buyers balked at the 0.911 ETH (then $1,490) pricetag, the price went nearly exclusively downhill. Now, with the NFTs floundering with floor prices down 96% from launch, Porsche has announced it is ending…

Below Deck season 13 episode 2 "Pier Pressure" introduced us to deckhand Matt's condom-snorting talent and my new favorite character, Mama Ying.

A couple years ago I decided to start playing crossword puzzles because I thought it would improve my language. As I get older I sometimes worry that I wont be able to think or come up with words as quickly as I used to. So I made an account on Puzzmo.com and have been playing the daily crossword every day since them. I think the only thing that's happened is that I've gotten better at solving crossword puzzles. Certain words come up a lot for example and I've gotten better at deciphering what…

Credit: Ryan Lynch, for Perils & Princesses ... So to explain what all this is about. My Problem with HirelingsI play RPGs to watch, closely and intimately, as characters the table is enormously emotionally invested in tumble down a fantasy-shaped Plinko board.1 I want to put human agency in a body weak enough to be familiar, then pit it against the arbitrary cruelty of monsters real and imagined. These games are a ritual that indoctrinate me into believing that good people are more powerful…

I went to Between Two Cons in sunny Portland, Oregon! There have already been a lot of great recaps, and I think they've all done a wonderful job capturing the atmosphere, so I'll skip trying to summarize the event itself and instead share a few of my favorite moments. I kicked off the weekend by dropping off print copies of A Familiar Tower for Skullboy to sell at his merchant table. I feel incredibly lucky that both he and Tony, over at the PlusOneExp booth, were excited enough about the…

This must be year eight, maybe year ten? Our roving reporter in North America, Brian B, has managed to visit three of the 'household name' discounters, to see what they had on offer this Autumn, and he's found a darn slight more than I've managed to, over here, and we're starting with the new packaging for an old favourite. They've lost their blister-cards, in favour of card-headed

A quick preservation update thanks to Allan Pinkerton, who has been continuing his work to preserve a number of lesser-known Commodore 64 educational titles and other software. Allan has recently uploaded Word Games from MECC (Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation), bringing the number of titles he has preserved from the company so far to four. He is also hoping to add Friendly Computer soon, with a copy currently on its way from the UK. Other finds include Ducks, which appears to be…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 Stars - 18 years late, but somehow I think I get more out of it as an adult. The post The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.

Without further ado, here’s my final banzuke guess.

CHAMBER GENERATION X (TOY BIZ) “The privileged life of Jonathan Starsmore was shattered forever when his mutant ability emerged for the first time. Most of his chest and lower jaw was blown away because he couldn’t control the powerful psionic-biokinetic energy that exists within him. Chamber is the oldest of Banshee’s new pupils, but he’ll have to emerge from the shell that his injury has forced him into, before he can emerge as a leader of his fellow students.” What’s an X-Men team without a…

You're so vain, you probably think this game is about you. Grinding has proven unnecessary in this game, at least so far, but I start this session doing a fair bit of it anyway, just so I can get my new cleric, Mischa, up to Level 5. I start with ghouls in the Cemetery, but it turns out they only deliver 44 experience points each, so I'd have to kill 100 of them. (Vampires are worth more but apparently do not respawn.) Darklings in town and werewolves in the Wooded Area West of Barovia are…

This post is part of Prismatic Wasteland's blog bandwagon on the topic of player advice.At the end of the AD&D PHB, just before the Appendices on psionics, bards, alignment, the planes, and suggested divisions of treasure, is a section titled SUCCESSFUL ADVENTURES, though it would perhaps be more aptly titled PLAYER ADVICE:While this advice pertains to AD&D play specifically and will illuminate what exactly Gygax felt made someone a "good" player, perhaps some of the advice will be germane to…

Overview first, zoom and filter, details on demand. - Ben Shneiderman's information-seeking mantra. In an apparent paradox, I find both the node-based scenario and the Carved from Brindlewood approaches to prep unsatisfactory. The first is too rigid; the second is too loose. I want there to be a core truth in the GM's mind that informs how the world responds to the players. I want there to be a reasonable cause-and-effect to everything that happens. Cause and effect is hard when you don't…

The upcoming solo board game Storyfold: Buried Truths (2026) features string connections in its promotional art and game board. From contributor Mike Odom.

This is my (Josh Bycer’s) coverage of the Latin American Games Showcase from October 2026, all games shown are either demo builds or creator fest access.

When you want to tell your players about your unique setting for fantasy medieval campaigns, you need to be able to answer some basic questions. There are other versions of this questionnaire. This one is mine. These questions are centered on the players' experience. Because I am who I am, these questions have tarot theming. These questions were crowdsourced through Gygaxian democracy. Many thanks to Patchwork Paladin, Luke Murkdice, Valeria Loves, Gus L., Joao, Lyme, Warren D., Warren F.…

As basically every studio working on shooting games was back in 1985, Toaplan’s first shoot ‘em up, Tiger-Heli, drew significant inspiration from Xevious. It had plenty of its own contributions to add to the lineage of the genre — screen-clearing bombs were the invention of Toaplan, first utilized in Tiger-Heli — but the speed the game moved at and the way enemies fired at you was still very reminiscent of Namco’s massive hit, only in a realistic military setting rather than a sci-fi one. That…

Joseph MohrOld School Role PlayingOSRICLevels 2-3 […] Fostrid has suggested that the adventurers meet him in an alley outside of the Gray Goblin. The Goblin is a tavern of ill repute near the Thieves Quarter. If the adventures meet him there perhaps they can negotiate a better price or learn more information from Fostrid. Many of the greatest citizens in the Free City made their fortunes plundering the cairns in the hills north of the city. Perhaps the adventurers can do likewise…..or perhaps…

Yabadabadoo is an experimental Sega Saturn emulator developed by WillHasStyles, built upon Yabause and extensively modified and optimized to run on the Miyoo Mini family of handhelds. The Miyoo Mini+ is a lovely little machine, with an almost toy-like charm that makes revisiting older games a pleasure. Sega Saturn emulation, however, is not something I'd ordinarily associate with it. Yet here we are, with games like Sakura Wars, Guardian Heroes and even Sega Rally Championship running on…

Latest shiny links from a week on the web. For even more, try last weeks set found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch, delinked by request. Dice Exploder shares Transcript: Thri-Kreen (Dark Sun) with Zedeck Siew Throne of Salt writes Power Word Kill is a first-level spell Nordic Larp shares Steering for Survival Roseline gives us Decoding skills in TTRPGs with the 5 Node Interface Model Prismatic Wasteland…