ZwodderZA

I’m a white South African who grew up gay and nerdy in a small town; today I find nerdy shit to obsess about all the time. I joined my first tabletop roleplaying game in my 20s and I’ve been hooked ever since. I write and edit for a living, but in my free time I blog about boardgames, RPGs, crafting, the creative or gaming-related projects my friends and I are involved in, cool shit that’s happening, various things that I think are great, and things that piss me off. My pet project is a series of posts filled with GMing advice for new players and GMs – people who, like me, came into the hobby late and did not always feel welcome. I also run and play as many RPGs as I possibly can. Social justice iop.

Free Games Digest 2020

It’s international #FreeRPGDay! What does that mean? Why, lots of free RPG stuff! The San Jenaro Co-Op’s Free Games Digest 2020 includes 3 great game resources for the sweet, sweet price of free! What do you get? Paleo Party quickstart+adventure...

Sad Shirts @ FanCon

Our friends over at Sad Shirts have been busy, busy, busy! Running a handcrafted shirt shop takes a lot of work, but they’ve been especially busy recently, getting ready for FanCon. In the words of their illustrious brand designer, Sad...

New Games Digest – Out Now

I’ll post our next boardgame-related post soon, but before I do, I thought I’d share something pretty damn cool. The San Jenaro Co-Op published our fifth volume of short games this week! Volume 5 clocks in at 198 pages, consisting...

An Intro to Digital Boardgames

I’ve been meaning to write about boardgames for a while now, so this article is well overdue. But if being stuck indoors for weeks on end is good for anything, it’s boardgames. The only problem is finding a way to...

Welcome to the new look!

We’re back! We’ve been busy, but it’s good to finally have the new site here and ready to show off to everyone. Before I get into more detail about the changes, we’d like to thank Antoine Blackler from ToneDark and...

CLAWs

The Cape Legion of Adventurers and Wargamers, or CLAWs, is the tabletop gaming society of the University of Cape Town. Every year in August the society runs Dragonfire, South Africa’s oldest roleplaying convention. In 2019, Dragonfire celebrated its 30th anniversary....