I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at "The Magus". I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven "Sell me an amazing Indie RPG" thread but I hadn't gotten to reading it yet. All I remembered was that it looked gorgeous.

Playing my typical day-to-day as a game didn’t feel like much fun. But, I thought, if I made Hope is Not a Plan a Dungeonomics story, maybe something darkly funny would emerge.

"It's like they put a high scoring mechanism on a Rainy-Day-Jigsaw-Puzzle session and realized it was (redacted) addictive." -me on Twitter.

As a bonafide grownup for more than a decade after finishing law school, I’ve had the good fortune of a weekly gaming group that entire time. That is, until the Coronavirus.

The insatiable need for commerce drives an insatiable need for the news. From Eversink back alley gossip circles to the rarified circle of the Triskadane, everyone needs to know what’s going on everywhere, all the time. Often, whoever lays hands on the news first, wins.

Whenever I have a short pause in in what I'm doing at my desk, I reach out for the little pile of index cards called "The Horizon Consipracy" and add new cards to it.

Then a question came to me: “Which icon is going to run interference in this scheme?” and asked for a final d12 roll and came up with “The Diabolist”

Dennis and Dave take another spin through an Ikoria draft on Magic Arena, both of whom have had their win percentages drop a bit in the format. Can they cycle through up against the best deck in the format to ooze their way to victory?

Dennis and Dave are back with their quarantine looks to try out one of the best companion creatures in Limited. Can they EVEN make Gyruda work? Or are the ODDS against them?

The new set Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is out, and draftable against other people on Magic Arena. But they are all still but one head, whereas Dennis and Dave are two.