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I’ve tried 54 different pumpkin beers over the years, as part of flights, as singles at alcohol retailers, and at restaurants. The only six pack I buy these days is Voodoo Ranger Atomic Pumpkin, which packs a nice bit of heat and is definitely my #1 pumpkin beer. Here are my top 20 pumpkin beers.

Cabel Sasser found an amazing Easter egg in the latest Lego Batman: a BASIC program that you can type in and run on a Commodore 64. So he did precisely that.

For basic moves, especially ones that come up too often (like Defy Danger in Dungeon World), I sometimes found it difficult to think of a good hard move in the heat of the moment.

That’s why I was particularly pleased to discover in Atma that, on a miss, the GM takes a token that they can spend later.

Stories from using the Shapeshifter move.

Running Colossal Cave as a setting recently reminded me that I once got a delightful three sessions of play out of the following notes. These were for a dungeon underneath a seaside city, with three traps from James Introcaso’s 20 New Traps and assembling the dungeon on the fly using tiles from The Sorcerer’s Cave (get your own set of tiles for this out-of-print game from here).

Links to my three gamebooks.

A look at hold in Apocalypse World, named hold in Dungeon World 1 and its hacks, and move-specific currency.

One example of how Jesse Jackson challenged segregation.

Here’s some art that I didn’t use in Planet of the Week but wanted to highlight.

Worf in Picard seems true to this quote from the very first Worf-focused episode, “Heart of Glory”: “The true test of a warrior is not without, it is within.”

Most PbtA players of Reddit prefer conditions 4-to-1 to hit points (63% vs. 16%). A separate poll, on just the Dungeon World subreddit, asked how often GMs dispensed damage with a debility. All but a few do it occasionally, with “sometimes” the most popular answer.

I’ve been curating this short playlist of pop songs referencing The Odyssey since 2013.

Today would have been my maternal grandmother’s 111th birthday (1915). Alas she was not as long-lived as a hobbit with a corrupting magic ring.

In the original spirit of Blaugust, here are some random observations of some of the games I have managed to play so far this year.