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by Alexandre Correia

Day 3484. July 16, 2026. Tavira...

"The spaceship game, Dad."

A few minutes before starting the workday in front of the screen, my 5yo ambushed me for a game. I called his sister, who was putting towels and play buckets in a bag, and the three of us took off into space.

Near misses.
A vanilla play of Light Speed: Arena, much to the frustration of my 11yo daughter who feels she's outgrown playing at beginner level. But for the boy, simple is still a fact of gaming, especially in a real-time game with lasers, asteroids, and a battlefield that fills up fast.

There was none of the fumbling nervousness of a first play. If anything, he thought too long about ship placement, often committing only after the timer ran out, which worked in his favor. His shots rarely missed, and every asteroid he could reach got mined dry. By the last round, his sister and I were the ones squinting at the board, doing the math, and no longer sure the five-year-old wasn't about to claim the whole space for himself.

Later in the afternoon, with the brain about to implode, I allowed myself a healthy dose of mindless procrastination and fired up the email.

Come right in, into the house of threads, by Munkao.
I rarely get spam, newsletters, or ads there anymore. One of the first things I do after coming back from December Offline is scan the accounts for money-suckers and rabbit holes and filter them out. Even if said rabbit holes often sent me on merry quests through unexplored parts of the geekland.

But every so often, one gets past the "no time" radar anyway.

Munkao's latest newsletter, through his RPG publisher, Centaur Games, served, among other subjects, as a shout-out for his Tragedy at Zaya's Theatre, nominated in 2026's Ennies for Best Short-Form Adventure.

Sadly, my interest in RPG has become platonic. Love the concept, especially when I think about my two little X-Wing fighter pilots, but can never envision a way to put it into practice. We're spoiled by the ease of cardboard. Open a box for the time you've got, play, shelve it. No prep. No imagination beyond what the game spoon-feeds you.

Near the end of the newsletter, Munkao dropped a handful of links. You know, the kind of stuff that gives screens and links a bad name as time suckers. He seemed genuinely pleased just to get a five-second mention in Quinns Quest's Stonetop review. Remember the guy behind Shut Up and Sit Down? After stepping away from board game reviews — itself a departure from his even earlier video-game days — Quinns Quest has become one of THE YouTube channels for RPG reviews.

Youtube Video
Forget short form here, Quinn's is going long and deep on his discourse. I'd already watched the Stonetop video on release; it nearly talked me into buying two tomes of wonder, if shipping from the US hadn't been so murderous. Today's rewatch merely confirmed what I knew. Stonetop looks epic, a dream to run over many – many(!) - sessions and put together after 10 years of dedication by Jeremy Strandberg.

I tried googling for soloing Stonetop. Something to justify the steep price of a product I would only read, like a book, if I had it. Nothing for it exists yet. But give it time.

But the thread took me to The Indie Game Reading Club. The kind of site that exists purely to spelunk the weirdest corners of this genre's small press.

Top of the game, by Lucie Arnoux.
There, I learned the history behind Stonetop. It's connections to the Powered by the Apocalypse ruleset, its departure from Dungeon World, where it first started as a setting, and its eventual Kickstarter in 2021. It was a good read up to a point, because... I never finished it.

Before long, and like the article's author, I was perusing the shelves of Lampblack and Brimstone publishing house for more tomes of wonder. Dungeon World supplements, like the Folio of Followers. The other spin-off from Dungeon World, Freebooters on the Frontier. And of course, the Perilous books. Deeps, Wilds...

I'd seen these before. In the Me, Myself and Die channel, during Trevor's very first season, dressing the set for his Savage Worlds campaign.

What a place to lose oneself, right? by Jakub "Doktór" Oleksów.
By now I was fully immersed, drowned, utterly lost in about a hundred tabs, hopping hole to hole like an intoxicated rabbit. Charles Ferguson-Avery's dangerous Into the Wyrd and Wild. Funnel World's deadly roller-coaster for a crew of level-0 villagers. Patrick Stuart's incomparable Veins of the Earth...

I could go on. But I'm stopping here. You go on. Find where those holes lead. Maybe the next game of your life is waiting at the end of one.

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by Rachel Carpenter

Work continued on Librarian's Cat today. Taking Dustbunny #1 from yesterday as a starting point, there's been more progress. No new picture yet, but the dustbunny is looking more bunny and a bit less geometric.

I also shot a new playthrough video for Lincoln's Cat! It needs some editing, but the video footage is done and much better than the existing video.

And the rest of my day went to non-BGG socials. A bit of a time sink, but I'm still learning the ropes.

At least tomorrow's Friday!

Happy Thursday and happy playing!
-Rachel

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