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Frights & Fables: Halloween Party Feast

This is the second Halloween guide we’ve put together for your gaming group. If you missed the first, track down Danny’s Rock’n Halloween Gaming Night in the Geek Opera Index — it’s a great companion piece focused on the gaming side of your evening. This guide covers the table: the food, the fun, and the atmosphere that makes a gothic Halloween party unforgettable.

52 Weeks: Lie Still

As the tale progresses, the audience is drawn ever deeper into a labyrinth of flesh, bone, secrets, and dread. I eventually felt pressed not only into the flesh-chilling details of this fable

Worlds & Wednesdays: Roots of the Game

Big publishers do incredible work, and I’m grateful for them. They built the roads we all walk on. But a healthy hobby doesn’t run on a handful of giants. It runs on hundreds of voices, each one weird and specific and alive.

Tactical Tuesdays: The Painted Grift

Think about what a street performer actually is. They stand in public all day, watching everyone who passes. They talk to strangers for a living. They read a crowd, work an angle, and move on before anyone asks too many questions. In game terms…

Mazes & Mondays: 10 Epic Swords of Myth

Some weapons are just tools. Others become legends. Across centuries of myth, epic, and storytelling, a handful of swords have earned names, personalities, and reputations that outlive the heroes who wielded them. These blades cut through more than flesh — they cut through history, shaping how we imagine courage, kingship, and destiny.

Frights & Fables: Tide of the Dead

It’s peak Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale. The beach is packed, the music is loud, and thousands of college kids and tourists are living it up without a care in the world.

Miles offshore, a luxury cruise liner is caught in a bizarre, boiling storm. Lightning hammers the ship as it slips beneath the waves, killing everyone aboard in an instant. But the dead do not stay dead. Under the water, they change.

52 Weeks: Living High on Trioxin-5

As part of this year’s 52 Weeks of Halloween, I’ve chosen to spotlight sequels that either elevate their lineage or claw their way out of it entirely. Return of the Living Dead 3 is one such creature.

What Dolly and Tim Taught a Small-Town Kid

Two Lights That Framed a Decade I only ever wanted to do three things with my life, and every one of them started with a kid staring at a screen. Growing up in a small town, 30 miles from anywhere with anything, the movies were how I saw past the edge of home. And two…

Worlds & Wednesdays: Where I Game From

Every week, I share the best parts of what I’ve learned. My perspectives, my design notes, the stuff I got wrong and how I clawed my way back from it.

Tactical Tuesdays: The Back Room…

Every pulp story has one. The speakeasy with the unmarked door behind the bar. The warehouse office where the boss counts his money. The private chamber past the throne where the real decisions get made. It goes by many names, but everyone at the table knows it the moment you mention it: the Back Room.