Mark Casiglio

Organizing Discord for West-Marches Play Our server is an important hub for our campaign, keeping it approachable isn't easy!

An article on how we organize our Shadowdark Discord server for West-Marches play.

This was absolutely my impression as well! So good on so many levels completely ruined by one sloppy mechanic. I liked how Lancaster handled combative worker placement a lot better.

The Adventures of La-li of Quincyshire! Over the Thanksgiving I ran my 5 year old granddaughter in her first ever RPG!

Spreading the RPG love to Gen Alpha

Ha! Yup, you got it. :)

Mythic Bastionland - Preparations and Analysis My group had its second session of Mythic Bastionland this past Thursday.

More Mythic Bastionland content! #ttrpg

Thanks for writing awesome stuff!

Hmm. I don't like the way the thumbnail comes out, but it's Tower of the Spectral Sorceress by @watcherdm.com

Two of my Favorite Shadowdark Adventures II Finally the other one! I know you shiver with antici...

Just me recommending another Shadowdark adventure.

YouTube video by Sly Flourish – The Lazy Dungeon Master What Is the OSR? – Lazy RPG Talk Show

He gets me! He really gets me! @slyflourish.com summing up my feelings exactly about OSR style play and OSR style games and the OSR community and overcategorization in general. AND he pronounces “Primer” correctly!!

OnlyHowardMoon - Twitch Got two hours to game, lets go

Going to be doing a live stream of this afternoon's #Shadowdark game on my friend's Twitch stream. Come check it out if you're interested 1:30 - 5:30(ish) EST www.twitch.tv/onlyhowardmoon

Yeah, for next time I'm going to sketch out (one or two lines) multiple ideas for each kind of landmark, then I can either pick an appropriate one, or roll one at random and flavor it to fit the area/moment with improvised details.

Exactly

First Time Running Mythic Bastionland My Thursday night group started a campaign to finish out 2025

Ran my first game of Mythic Bastionland last night!

Tabletop Gaming and Revisionist History From someone who was actually there.

I link the Atlantic article I reference in the Substack, but I'll also put it in the second half of the post for easy reference.

ArcaneCon - Recap and Review An amazing weekend of RPGs! Unaffiliated links galore!

Wrote about my ArcaneCon experience on Substack. Spoiler alert: It was awesome!

Tremendous con! And a pleasure to meet in person.

Mechritter: An Expansion for Mausritter A modular mech-building simulator and urban adventure setting for Mausritter.

I mean, how can you *not* get behind mice and mechs?!?

Two of my Favorite Shadowdark Adventures A review of two adventures I've now run multiple times each - part one

Chatting with @nightnoon.games reminded me that I never shared my latest write-up here.

HBG-Con X Recap Four of the best game sessions I've ever played!

Recap of the last RPG convention I addended. Four great games!

Overheard today at the Verizon Store:

Sales Associate: "Can I get your e-mail address?"
Older Customer: "I don't have e-mail."
SA: "Oh, uh ..." starts to mention ways to get past not having an e-mail address.
OC: "I don't have e-mail. But I do have G-mail, will that work?"

What if it really was The Rapture yesterday, but just nobody qualified?

Mmmmm... canned fishes! <3

Tales of Hilarity: Unexpected Guests Funny RPG Stories? I've got a million of them.

Another amusing (I hope) anecdote from my ttrpg playing career.

Logan’s Run needs a sequel where people who had their food, shelter, clothing, child bearing and parenting, etc. done for them - suddenly getting “freedom” from AI never knowing anything more than recreation and pleasure.

It's a “that happy ending isn’t as happy as you think” kind of film.

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.

Holy shit, it worked! :o

Looking for Lessons from a Difficult Game Session. From 1988. A memorable session - but for the right or wrong reasons?

This week's Rulings, Not Rules - looking for lessons from a campaign session 37 years in the past.

Tales of Hilarity: The Noxzema Incident Funny RPG stories? I got a million of them

Old man shares funny story from the old days.

SOLD!

My Orcs Are Going to Be Whatever I Want Them to Be, Thank You Very Much. A fresh take on an old argument? Probably not.

My latest column dredges up a tired subject after a positive discussion on Discord gives me hope for better conversation. #RulingsnotRules #Shadowdark