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November 2025

Fair (and fairy) cake-cutting in Pacts
Exploring how the divide and choose ("I cut. You choose.") mechanism in Pacts from DVC combines with area control to create tough choices and meaningful…
Revisiting SPI's 1981 Dragonslayer and what it can teach us
What can we learn from the board game adaptation of the 1981 dark fantasy film Dragonslayer? Quite a bit, both from what it does well and how it might…
Skirmish Week is coming and I need your help.
Which skirmish games do you love? Do skirmish games need minis? Let me know what makes a game a "skirmish game" and which games you'd like to see…
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Using blackjack to raise the dead
Exploring Necromancer Heretic by Junk Food Games and how traditional games can be modified and recontextualized as the basis for modern board games and…
Who's behind Skeleton Code Machine?
It's me. I'm the person! Learn a little more about me in an interview I did with TTRPGKids where we talked about my background, teaching at libraries…
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The power of zero-agency game design (and a huge baby)
What happens when Baba Yaga, Sisyphus, and a rocket scientist have a race? We learn how player agency (or lack thereof) in game phases impacts player…

October 2025

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