Find more of my writing on my blog! Now publishing weekly updates as I watch the seasons change through my final year in Japan.

A curious Catan from a Japanese thrift shop... and a few mysteries to go along with it. Why the translucent blue?

What do people think about Fog of Love?

What mispronunciations has the community normalized?

Keeping Up With Star Rail — "Mydei: 'Performance Boosters' Don't Exist in a Kremnoan's Dictionary"

Tribbie, or Not Tribbie? That is Trinnon. - General Question and Discussion Megathread

Seeking COVID retrospectives from 5th year JETS for CONNECT Travel article

Best way to move PC overseas?

[WP] You come from a family that has been grave keepers for generations. You've noticed someone repeatedly leaving flowers at the tomb of the same thousand-year-old conqueror. Then you realize that your great-great-grandfather also mentioned this man, 150 years ago...

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Goldweave - General Question and Discussion Megathread

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Do you prefer direct conflict, indirect conflict, or positive interactions in board games?

Do you read the story/lore in rulebooks or do you skip it and go straight to the mechanics? I'd love to hear if reading this would get you excited to play.

Finspan is the best of that series

[WP] Your loving spouse is struck with an unknown illness taking their life, in an act of desperation you learn an incantation to summon a deity. Offering your soul to them in exchange for your spouses health, they refuse saying your soul already belongs to another deity, your spouse.

Vibe Checker/Silken Serenade - General Question and Discussion Megathread

Summer 2025 Hokkaido Itinerary Feedback

[WP] You once saved a Crow from dying as a child. Even now that you are an adult, you still remember the Crow's words after you set it free back to its murder, "We... wiLL... RETurN... ThE... FAVor..."

How often do you draft an extra junk card just to have something for Mars University to discard?

I am The Fox that is Approaching - General Questions and Discussion Megathread

[WP] Dragons are known to hoard a certain type of things as what they consider valuable treasure. The one living your village has chosen a very weird type of things.

Buying tips

"Heroes, Assemble! Paean of Era Nova" Web event

All I Want for Christmas is Fugue - General Question and Discussion Megathread

Anyone play any of these? I found an old convention board game schedule from 1991.