Character creation can be a great prompt for creative writing, but it’s rare that the storyteller gets in on the action. Recently, a 7th Sea player needed to reference a very specific folktale. It had to involve an otherworldy being...
Music has always been a part of my gaming life. My first group, who introduced me to RPGs, always listened to industrial, metal, and goth playlists during our gaming sessions. Rather appropriate for a bunch of nerds pretending to be...
I’m running a Curse of Strahd campaign for six friends, playing Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. The party consists of a human cleric, a half-elf paladin, a human barbarian, a tiefling warlock, a gnome rogue, and a gnome wizard. The...
Welcome to a new section of NerdVerse! This is the first installment of an ongoing series I like to call: “Social Skills for Nerds, or How to Avoid Being a Dick while Nerding Out with Other People.” Because being a...
Reading is what? Fundamental. One of South Africa’s annual literary highlights is the Open Book Festival. This usually takes place in and around Cape Town during early September, which is the start of spring. They’ve had great guests before, including...
Welcome to this blog’s first review! I love running published adventures, and I find that writing a review is a good way to reflect on my experience and learn from my mistakes and successes. So enjoy this review of Death House, a...
I love RPGs. They’re a unique form of communal storytelling, a great way to spend time with friends, and at best they’re a fantastic creative outlet. Whether you’re sitting at a physical table or playing online, it’s enormous fun for...
I love learning how to do things. It’s pretty much my favourite thing in the world. It’s also one reason why my list of obsessions keeps growing. Whenever you learn something new, you find all this other stuff you want...
Like many people who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I’ve listened to lots of R.E.M. in my life. By far my favourite R.E.M. album is (still) New Adventures in Hi-Fi. It’s a little bewildering to realize that album...
I warned you this blog was going to feature too much Star Trek, right? I also said I’d be blathering on (at length) about roleplaying games. But this is the NerdVerse, so of course there has to be a topic...
