Dan Plays Games Index

Micro-reviews of video games I've played.

Last updated 08/01/2026

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Dan Plays Games 1 (03/14/2022)

• Psychonauts
• Gris
• Scourgebringer
• Little Nightmares
• Bloodstained Ritual of the Night
• Lobotomy Corporation
• Remnant: From the Ashes
• Kingdom: Two Crowns
• SUPERHOT
• Cross Code
• Horizon: Forbidden West

Gamepost Special: Elden Ring (07/04/2022)

Dan Plays Games 2 (05/04/2023)

• Warframe
• Sundered
• Roadwarden
• Spiritfarer
• Vigil: Longest Night
• Blasphemous
• Chained Echoes

Gamepost Special: Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom (06/05/2023) 

Gamepost Special: Fear and Hunger 2 (02/26/2024) 

Dan Plays Games 3 (03/26/2024)

• Balatro
• Symphony of War: the Nephilim Saga
• Limbus Company
• 20 Minutes Till Dawn
• Chants of Sennar
• Path of Achra
• Otxo
• The Dungeon Beneath
• Blasphemous 2
• Wildermyth
• The Forgotten City
• Grime
• The Fermi Paradox
• Book of Hours
• Roboquest
• Moonring
• Brutal Orchestra
• Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood 

Dan Plays Games 4 (07/27/2024)

• Black Mesa
• Darkest Dungeon 2
• Coromon
• Civilization 6
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
• Void Stranger
• Quester
• Baldur's Gate 3 

Dan Plays Games 5 (12/05/2024)

• Tactical Breach Wizards
• The Pathless
• Potioncraft: Alchemist Simulator
• Halo CE (MCC)
• Halo 4 (MCC, Spartan Ops only)
• Terra Nil
• Vampire Survivors (replay + Castlevania DLC)
• Potionomics

Dan Plays Games 6 (03/01/2025)

• Buckshot Roulette
• Epigraph
• Mouthwashing
• Katana Zero
• Selaco
• Shadows of Doubt
• Quester | Osaka
• ABI-DOS
• Gods vs Horrors (demo)
• The Roottrees are Dead
• Caves of Qud
• UFO50
• Rift of the Necrodancer
• Sorry, We're Closed 

Dan Plays Games 7 (05/22/2025)

• Pyrene
• Pokerogue
• Spiritfarer (follow-up)
• Path of Achra (follow-up)
• Sorry, We're Closed (follow-up) 
• Ender Magnolia
• Time Wasters
• ENA: Dream BBQ
• Gods vs Horrors (release build)
• Slay the Princess
• Promise Mascot Agency

Dan Plays Games 8 (08/14/2025)

• Elden Ring: Nightreign
• Odallus: The Dark Call
• One Finger Death Punch
• Rift of the Necrodancer (follow-up)
• Binding of Isaac: Repentance
• Date Everything 

Gamepost Special: Expedition 33 (09/15/2025) 

Dan Plays Games 9 (11/25/2025)

• Date Everything (follow-up)
• Islanders: New Shores
• Silksong
• Hades 2
• Binding of Isaac: Repentance (follow-up)
• Decktamer
• Hell is Us
• Peak
• Picto Quest: The Cursed Grids 

Dan Plays Games 10 (01/24/2026)

•  Forward Escape the Fold
• Asbury Pines
• Dungeon Encounters
• Nuclear Throne (10 year replay)
• Ye Guild Clerk
• Neon White
• Stackflow
• Monsters are Coming!: Rock and Road
• Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop 

Dan Plays Games 11 (05/26/2026)

• The Apothecary of Trubiz
• TR-49
• Scarlet Hollow (Episode 5 update)
• Hell is Us (follow-up)
• Dorfromantik 
• The Seance of Blake Manor
• Lingo 2
• Sol Cesto
• Scriptorium
• Blue Prince 

Dan Plays Games 12 (08/01/2026)

• Gravity Circuit
• Lost Wiki Kozlovka
• Look Outside
• The Message from Deep Space
•  Cursed Words
• Time Break Chronicles 

 

The Character Portfolio

Like nearly everyone else in this hobby, I own more games than I'll ever be able to play. But making characters for games you will never play is a time-honored tradition and I figured I might as well turn it into something interesting to read.

Basic premise here is that I'm going to go digging through my archive of games looking for anything with character generation complex enough to make an interesting blogpost out of, and then I'll go through the process step-by-step, rules-as-written. The end result should hopefully be somewhere between solo play report, mini-review, and creative writing exercise. If the process for a single character isn't super in-depth, I'll make a full party slash whatever other setting building tables and procedures they have in there. 

Many of these games I've either not read in full or haven’t read in ages (or both), so I fully expect some surprises to come out of the woodwork and / or some of these to be duds that I have to toss. The list below is neither exhaustive nor a guarantee: I'm sticking it here to give a rough overview of what's available and provide a handy random table in case I need a suggestion. 

If the muses move you to start compiling a portfolio of your own, let me know! I’ll link to it down below.

Completed Characters

1. 60 Years in Space v.6 - TIS Kui

The List

1. Shattered
2. Delta Green (2016)
3. Runequest (2018)
4. Dungeons the Dragoning 7th Edition
5. Star Wars 5e
6. Hellboy 5e
7. Eclipse Phase 2e
8. Talislanta 4e/5e
9. Shadow of the Demon Lord
10. Spire & Heart
11. Red Markets
12. Ringworld
13. Pokerole
14. Nibiru
15. New Horizons
16. Mutant Year 0
17. Mistborn Adventure Game
18. LISA the RPG
19. Lancer
20. Harlem Underground
21. Halo Mythic 2.0
22. FIST
23. As the Sun Forever Sets
24. Engine Heart
25. CAIN
26. Dogs in the Vinyard
27. Across A Thousand Dead Worlds
28. [DATA EXPUNGED]
29. Open Quest 3e
30. A wide selection of GURPS
31. Sleepaway
32. Land of Eem (2022 Quickstart)
33. Armour Astir
34. Blades in the Dark
35. Deadball
36. 60Virsi0ns v.7
37. Final Fantasy d6 
38. BLAM
39. D&D 3.5 + supplements 
40. Silent Legions
41. Stars Without Number
42. Worlds Without Number 
43. Ars Magica 3e 
44. Cephus Engine 

Slushpile Index

Not every idea gets a post: all the rest gets dumped in THE SLUSH PILE.

Last updated  8/31/26

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Slushpost 1 (4/10/18)

Slushpost 2 (9/25/18)

Slushpost 3 (4/27/19)

Slushpost 4 (7/6/19)

Slushpost 5 (3/12/20)

Slushpost 6: Prime Hellsite Salvage (9/13/20)

Slushpost 7: Archive Dredging (1/17/21)

Slushpost 8 (6.26.21)

Slushpost 8.5: Bookmark Special (7/20/21)

Slushpost 9 (11/10/21)

Slushpost 10 (1/19/22)

Slushpost 10.2: Bookmark Special 2 (5/13/22)

Slushpost 11 (7/30/22)

Slushpost 12 (1/11/23)

Slushpost 13 (4/13/23)

Slushpost 14: Scrapped Posts (6/10/23)

Slushpost 15 (6/10/24)

Slushpost 16 (2/7/25)

Slushpost 16.5: Conlang Scratchpad Spectacular (4/27/25) 

Wikipedia Link Pile 1 (7/31/25) 

Slushpost 17 (8/16/25) 

Wikipedia Link Pile 2 (12/11/25)

Slushpost 18 (1/18/26)

Wikipedia Link Pile 3 (5/9/26) 

Slushpost 19 (5/29/26)

Slushpost 20: Linkapalooza (8/25/26) 

 

Bookpost Index

Micro-reviews of everything I read that I can form an opinion on. 

Last updated  8/12/26  

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Bookpost 1 (8/15/19)

• River of Teeth (Sarah Gailey)
• Quantum Thief, Fractal Prince, Causal Angel (Hannu Rajaneimi)
• Unsouled (Will Wight)
• Accelerando (Charles Stross)
• The Red Plague (Jack London)
• Of Sheep and Battle Chicken (Logical Premise)
• Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon)
• Worm (John McCrae)
• Foreigner (C.J. Cherryh)
• Dawn (Octavia Butler)
• Time and the Gods (Lord Dunsany)
• Luna: New Moon (Ian McDonald)
• The King in Yellow (Robert Chambers)
• Winter Tide (Ruthanna Emrys)

Bookpost 2 (9/10/19)

• Sabriel & Lirael (Garth Nix)
• The Collapsing Empire (John Scalzi)
• The Vela Episode 1 (SL Huang)
• The Black Tides of Heaven (Jy Yang)
• Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer)
• The Silent Tower (Barbara Hambly)
• City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff Vandermeer)
• Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)
• Burn (James Patrick Kelly) 
• The Only Harmless Great Thing (Brooke Bolander)
• The Emperor's Blades (Brian Stavely)
• The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle) 

Bookpost 3 (11/18/19)

• Who Fears Death, Binti (Nnedi Okorafor)
• Autonomous (Annalee Newitz)
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickenson)
• Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• The Murders of Molly Southbourne (Tade Thompson)
• Please Pass the Guilt (Rex Stout)
• Abhorsen (Garth Nix)
• The Interface Series (9Mother9Horse9Eyes9)
• The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) 

Bookpost 4 (5/4/20)

• Gentlemen of the Road (Michael Chabon)
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union (Michael Chabon)
• Wild Cards 1 (ed. GRRM)
• All Systems Red (Martha Wells)
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Seanan McGuire)
• Do You Dream of Terra Two? (Temi Oh)
• Proxima, Ultima (Stephen Baxter)
• Plot it Yourself (Rex Stout)
• City of Brass (S.A. Charkaborty)
• From a Certain Point of View (various)
• Sisters of the Vast Black (Lina Rather)
• The Stars are Legion (Kameron Hurley)
• UNSONG (Scott Alexander)

Bookpost 5 (8/29/20)

• Silver in the Wood (Emily Tesh)
• The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal)
• Strangest of All (ed. Julie Novakova)
• Gulliver of Mars (Edwin Lester Arnold)
• Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
• Jingo (Terry Pratchett)
• Galactic Derelict (Andre Alice Norton)
• Heretics of Dune (Frank Herbert)
• Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, The Chinese Bell Murders (Robert Van Gulik) 

Bookpost 6 (12/18/20)

• Sorcerer of the Wilddeeps (Kai Ashante Wilson)
• The Secret Tomb (Maurice Leblanc)
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)
• Dangers Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison)
• Ventus (Karl Schroeder) 

Reread Post: Lord of the Rings (5/21/25) 

Bookpost 7 (12/18/21)

• Beowulf (trans. Thomas Meyer)
• Cordelia's Honor (Lois McMaster Bujold)
• Pandora's Star (Peter Hamilton)
• Invader, Inheritor (C.J. Cherryh)
• The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
• Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler)
• Dinosaur Summer (Greg Bear)
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Gene Wolfe) 

Bookpost 8 (4/22/22)

• The Sharing Knife, Parts 1 & 2 (Lois McMaster Bujold) 
• Tales of a Dark Continent (Morthoron)
• Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
• A History of What Comes Next (Sylvain Neuvel) 
• Circe (Madeline Miller)
• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Nghi Vo)
• Hammers on Bone (Cassandra Khaw) 

Reread Post: Wizard of Earthsea 

Bookpost 9 (8/22/22)

• The Phoenix Empress (K. Arsenault Rivera) 
• Various Elric Stories (Michael Moorcock)
• Ring of Swords (Eleanor Arneson)
• Grace of Kings (Ken Liu)
• Lud-in-the-Mist (Hope Mirrlees)
• The Forever War (Joe Haldeman)
• Making Money (Terry Pratchett)
• Machine (Elizabeth Bear)
• The First Sister (Linden Lewis)

Reread Post: Book of the New Sun, part 1

Reread Post: Book of the New Sun, part 2 

Bookpost 10 (1/6/23)

• Urth of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
• Hegira (Greg Bear)
• Empress of Salt and Fortune (Nghi Vo)
• Forge of God (Greg Bear)
• A Memory Called Empire (Arkady Martine)
• Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• The Cherokee Syllabary (Ellen Cushman) 
• Elder Race (Adrian Tchaikovsky) 

Bookpost Special: Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart (2/11/23)

Bookpost 11 (4/13/23)

• Children of Ruin (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Something About Eve (James Branch Cabell)
• Monster, vol 1 (Naoki Urasawa)
• Uzumaki (Junji Ito)
• A Billion Wicked Thoughts (Ogi Odas and Sai Gaddam)
• Voyage to Arcturus (David Lindsay)
• Etidorhpa (John Uri Lloyd) 

Bookpost 12 (6/8/23)

• The Hall of the Mountain King (Judith Tarr)
• Children of Memory (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Always Coming Home (Ursula K. LeGuin)
• The Lady Who Picked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window (Rachel Swirsky)
• Move Underground (Nick Mamatas)
• Because Internet (Gretchen McCulloch) 

Bookpost 13 (7/25/23)

• The Sparrow (Doria Russell)
• Border Keeper (Kerstin Hall)
• A Strange Manuscript Found Inside a Copper Cylinder (James de Mille)
• Medea: Harlan's World (Harlan Ellison et al)

Bookpost 14 (9/17/23)

• The Wizard Knight (Gene Wolfe)
• Delta-V (Daniel Suarez)
• Sacred and Terrible Air (Robert Kurvitz)
• Goddess of Atvatabar (William Richard Bradshaw)
• Shards of Earth (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Scud: The Disposable Assassin (Rob Schrab) 

Bookpost 15 (1/23/24)

• Lathe of Heaven (Ursula K. LeGuin)
• Ninefox Gambit (Yoon Ha Lee)
• Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh)
• Knights of Sidonia, vol 1-6 (Tsutomu Nihei)
• The Songs of Distant Earth (Arthur C. Clarke)
• Moon of Crusted Snow ( Waubesheg Rice)
• Carrie (Stephen King) 

Bookpost 16 (5/11/24)

• And What Can We Offer You Tonight (Premee Mohammed)
• These Prisoning Hills (Christopher Rowe)
• All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)
• A Stranger in Olondria (Sofia Samatar)
• Exordia (Seth Dickenson)
• There is No Antimemetics Division (qntm)
• The Prince of Milk (Exurb1a) 

Bookpost 17 (8/19/24)

• Story of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
• Flatland (Edwin A. Abbot)
• The Madman (Kahlil Gibran)
• The Northern Caves (nostalgabraist)
• The Book of Japanese Folklore (Thersa Matsuura)
• The Complete Poems of Enheduana, the World's First Author (trans. Sophus Helle)
• Native Tongue (Suzette Haden Elgin) 
• House of Rust (Khadija Abdalla Bajaber)
• Burning Roses (S.L. Huang) 
• Gyo (Junji Ito)
• Golden Kamuy, vols 1~14 (Satoru Noda) 

Bookpost 18 (1/20/25)

• Books of the South (Glen Cook)
• Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction (Joseph Dan)
• Echoes of Mist-Land (Aubertine Woodward Moore)
• Little Fuzzy (H. Beam Piper)
• House of Suns (Alastair Reynolds)
• Book of Imaginary Beings (Jorge Luis Borges)
• The Marigold (Andrew F. Sullivan)
•  Gods of the North (Robert E. Howard)
• The Door to Saturn (Clark Ashton Smith)
• The Unspoken Name (A.K. Larkwood) 

Bookpost Special: House of the Rain King (3/15/25) 

Bookpost 19 (8/9/25)

• Tales from Failed Anatomies (Dennis Detwiler)
• Strange Authorities (John Scott Tynes) 
• Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon) 
• The Cruel Empire of Tsan-Chan (Christian Read)
• Avatars, Inc (Various)
• Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European (Mallory & Adams)
• Highly Complex Syllable Structure (Shelece Easterday)
• What Lies Beneath (Chris Scaffidi)
• Architect of Worlds (Jon Zeigler)
• Red Nails (R.E. Howard)
• Monstrum (Arnold Kemp)
• The Epiphany of Gliese 581 (Fernando Borretti)
• Etidorhpa (again) (John Uri Lloyd) 

Bookpost 20 (12/28/25)

• A Comprehensive Introduction to Nostratic Comparative Linguistics With Special Reference to Indo-European 5th Edition (Allan Bomhard)
• Black Amazon of Mars (Leigh Brackett) 
• The Lost Continent (C.J. Cutliffe Hyne) 
• Omniligual (H. Beam Piper) 
• Qoholeth (Madison Scott-Clary) 
• Three Imposters (Arthur Machen)
• Oomphel in the Sky (H. Beam Piper)
• The Sundering Flood (William Morris)
• Green Antarctica (D'Valdron) 

Bookpost 21 (3/17/26)

• The Author of the Acacia Leaves (Ursula K LeGuin)
• Enchantress of Venus (Leigh Brackett)
• Queen of the Martian Catacombs (Leigh Brackett)
• The Book of the Law (Aleister Crowley)
• Mirrikh; or, a Woman from Mars (Francis Worcester Doughty) 
• Armageddon 2419 A.D. (Philip Francis Nowlan)
• The Blind Spot (Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint) 

Bookpost 22 (8/12/26) 

• Diaspora (Greg Egan)
• Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown (Mike Mignola)
• Grunts (Mary Gentle)
• Journey to the West (trans. Julia Lovell)
• Sight Tremendous and Abhorred (Ognyen Plamen)
• Plague of Pythons (Frederick Pohl)
• The Book of Mormon (Joseph Smith)
• Legacy (James Schmitz) 

Blog Index

Last updated: 1/18/26

Sub-Indexes

• Bookpost Index
• Slushpile Index
• Dan Plays Games Index 

Mother Stole Fire

• Hub Page
• Clever Lu and the Dragons
• 40 Questions
• Core Themes 
• The World of Mother Stole Fire
• Lands of the Mare Interregnum 1: The Hespermont
• Lands of the Mare Interregnum 2: The World at Large 
• DOG
• Darvatius the Eternal
• Bakunawa and the Seven Moons
• The Bhedu
• Orca
• Cloacina and the Merde Grande
• Mushrooms of Llaphedon
• Courts of the Alfar
• Panacea Potions
• Mundo the Seal
• Goblinwatch
• The Lilu
• The Old School Part 1, Part 2
• Satchel Buck's Lonely Souls Club
• Four Knightly Orders
• Dungeon Hobo Slang and Signs
• Clerical Relics
• Self-Indulgent Lore Garbage
• Amazons and Androgons 
• The Dragon Lords 
• Gods of Man, Great Powers, Blessings 
• Mother and Moloch
• Mother Stole the Background Kits 1, 2, 3, 4
• Moon Beasts, Necromantic Republics, and Hell 
• Of Baba Tubalkhan
• The Dragon Republics
• The Sixth People of Man 
• The War of the Bull and the Sable Maid
• The War of the Bull, in Detail
• The Marriage of Clever Lu
• Setting Questions, Triple Deluxe
• Pen & Tam
• Old Scratch and the Thief 
• 100 Facts About MSF 
• The Daemonomachy 
• Lu in the Lands of Spring 
• A Psalm of Wrath
• The Dragon Cults 
• Guest Post: Agrimas the Misbegotten
• Guest Post: The Nameless Men of Erd
• Mysteries and Curiosities of the World
• The Ballad of Molly Ironshanks 
• Dangers of the World
• The Okavim and their Golems
• The Longest Night and the Bringer of Day 
• Growing up in the Hespermont 
• Kara Koren and the East
• The Beloved Student and the Dog Knight
• Mother Stole Fire: The Soundtrack
• 100 More Facts About Mother Stole Fire 

 

Classes

• Adipomancer
• Allomancer
• Amazons and Androgons
• Barber
• Bard
• Book Club Witch
• Calimarimancer
• Carvergirl
• Clerical Relics
• Dung Knight 
• Elemental Bender
• Folk 
• Gun Saint of An-Hehm
• Knights of the Broken Sword
• Magelander
• Nightsoil Priest
• Paladin
• Priest
• Radical Anarchist Catgirl
• Sanctioned Cambion
• Spaceship
• Spook (Template)
• Star Warriors 
• Sword that Cuts Heaven   
• Sword Devil
• Thaumonaut
• Theotokos
• Traveler
• Witch
• Wudu-Wasa

Peoples

• Changelings
• Florens and Hauflins 
• Folk
• Neandr and Idaltu 
• Lilu
• Wanderers
• Everyone is Human
• AltaiDemihumans are a Social Construct 

Bestiary

• Reverse Monsters
• Ordinary Magical Animals
• Spaceship Encounters
• Three from the Public Domain
• Monsters of Linnaeus
• Fun With Linnaeus II
• Chambermaidens
• Monsters Born of Sin
• Mini-Bestiary
• Jon Tatterdemalion 
• Cacopithicus 
• The Dream Eater
• Primates of the Post-Causal Paradox Peninsula  10 Bestiary Entries
• Brief Taxonomy of Magical Beings
• 151 Fantastic Beings
• The Yuki-Onna 
• False Werewolf 

Dungeons & Adventures & Games etc.

• Gullet of the Rust Demon
• A Look at Video Game Megadungeons
• Making Dungeons with AI 
• Lighthouse on the Spur
• The Therefore Game
• RiseandShine.exe
• The Wizard's Fugue
• The True Love Potion 
• Minimodule 1: TV Rots Your Brain (Mothership) 
• Minimodule 2: First Contact Protocol (Mothership)
• Minimodule 3: Break Their Pride By A Woman's Hand (Part 1, Part 2) (Knave)
• Minimodule 4: The Doom that Came to Ypsilon (Mothership)
• Dog God vol 1 
• Dog God vol 2
• Dog God Deluxe
• Minimalism
• Minimalism II
• State of Affairs 2022
• Adventure Writing Tips feat. Unicorn Meat
• Unicorn Meat is live! 
• 3 Pamphlets (Break Their Pride, Lighthouse on the Spur, Dungeon Hobos) 
• Escape from Bluebird Hellsite

 

Mechanics 

• Alternate Progression Methods
• Cybernetics for Knave
• Guns and Kung Fu for Knave
• Health, Healing, and Injuries
• Material Methods of Protection Against Evil 
• Material Methods of Detection
• Soul Magic and the Soul Cycle 
• Unified Food Theory
• The Greatest Table Ever Made 
• Magical Languages
• Card-Based Expeditions  Violence, that Art of Fools

Random Tables

• 100 Biblical Events and Aesthetics
• 100 Convictions
• 20 Hordes of Monstrous Humanoids
• 20 Lingering Effects of Petrification
• 20 Memories of Old Wars
• 20 Magical Masks
• 20 Weird World Locations
• 20 Spells From My Playlist
• 20 Wizarding Colleges 
• 20 Wizardball Mascots and other Wizarding Sports
• 20 Soulslike Bosses 
• 26 Cults
• 24 Easy Family Trees
• 336 Wizards
• What the Fuck am I Scrying?
• The Crow's Foot
• Goblin Plots, Pockets, and Broodmothers
• It's October 9th!
• 10 Horrible Hives 
• What's the Fishman Excited About? 
• The World According to Mr. Welch
• 100 Level 0 Characters for Super Smash Classics 
• 66 Folk
• Big Table of Cultural Traits
• Post Apocalyptic Nuns on the Run
• 50 Animal Mutations
• Archaisms and Alzabos 
• 10 Secret Hideouts
• 7d8 Road-Weary Wanderers
• 10 Magical Items 
• Random Fantasy Christ Figure Generators
• 50 Esoteric Enterprises Inspiration Seeds
• Random Tables from Twitter 1, 2, 3
• JOESKY TAX PREPARATION
• 20 Magical Precipitations
• 30 Words That Don't Exist
• 50 Hidden Name Meanings 
• 100 Spaceship Names
• 100 More Spaceship Names
• Fiona's 122 Questions + Challenge
• CK3 Religion Tables
• 20 Anomalous Media 
• Extended Pantheon Generator 
• 100 Mothership Patches
• 100 More Mothership Patches 
• 100 Mothership Patches vol 3
• 100 Mothership Trinkets 
• 100 More Mothership Trinkets
• 100 Mothership Megacorp Lines of Business
• 100 Planet Names + 40 Planet Types
• 100 More Planet Names 
• 10 Fictional Modern Faiths 
• Assorted Mothership Random Tables 
• 50 Alternate History Divergence Points 
• 50 Space Travelers  
• 100 Character Backgrounds for Mothership
• What's in the Creepy Castle of the Tall Vampire Lady? 
• 100 Sci-fi Locations 
• 100 Songs as Spells
• Build Your Own Shonen Battle Series 
• 100 Mothership Scenario Titles
• 12 Cultural Relics of the Post-Event Age
• 10 Genders from Fantastic Lands
• 100 Good Words 
• 5 Forgotten Fictional Fantasy Novels
• 5 More Forgotten Fictional Fantasy Novels 
• 10 More Planets of the Solar System 
• 7 Grimoires and Lost Tomes
• 9 Star Wars Movies that Don't Exist and Never Will 
• 100 Ways to get Dragged into an Isekai
• 100 Lost Books of Appendix N  

 

Essays

• Original, Simple, Ready to Hack
• The Demons in Dark Corners
• Organically-Grown Investigations
• Dredge are the Coolest Orcs
• Layman's Guide to Being Horrible
• D&D Doesn't Understand What Monsters AreDisorganized Rambling About Monster Descriptions 
• 3 Dread Horrors (Legend of Korra critique post) + The Korra fixfic 
• How to Easily Make a Diverse Fantasy Setting 
• On Creativity; Or, the Grand Art

 

Mothership Stuff

• Unnamed Setting: Basics
• Unnamed Setting: Gazetteer
• Five More for Mothership 
• Uplifts for Mothership
• Even More for Mothership
• Converting Eclipse Phase Monsters to Mothership
• A Creature, a Character, and Warframes for Mothership
• Layman's Guide to Hard Sci Fi 
• All-Purpose Late-Capitalist Mad Libs Scenarios
• Jump Nine Empires 
• The Ship Children
• GREAT SCREAMING HELL
• The Extrapolation GameExtrapolation Game vol 2
• Classless Character Creation
• Web of a Million Lies
• A Tour of the Solar System
• FRIEND
• Mothership Planet Generation 1
• Mothership Planet Generation 2
• Testing the Planet Generation Tables
• Sons and Daughters of RHEA
• Iblis' Crown
• The High Celestial Houses
• Making Star Maps
• Making Star Maps: Practical Example
• Blacksite Alpha 
• Additional Equipment for Mothership
• Chase the Black Rabbit (SCP-2085 character premades)
• Superstitious Spacers and Monsters of the Jump 
• 100 Sci-fi Locations 
• 12 Apostles in the Garden
• The Devil's Arts
• 7 New Backgrounds 
• 4 More Backgrounds
• 100 Things to do at the Spaceport
• 100 Scenario Titles
• A Timeline of the Future
• 50 Factions
• The Archive 
• The Great Chain Ontology
• 8 Space Stations
• The Distributed City
• 9 Metahuman Clades
• Mothership: The Movie
• Answering Mothership Setting Questions
• Police State Ecosystem
• The Tragic Tale of the Ishi
• Revolutionary Technologies
• 7 Planets for Mothership
• Extrapolation Game 3: Factions 
• Extrapolation Game 4: Lore
• Inner Abraham
• Paths of Android Rampancy
• Appendix M-DAN and the Mothership Soundtrack
• Miscellanea, Vol 1
• Environmental Scenario Design
• MUIR and the Infinite Zoo 
• Mothership Month '24
• Miscellanea Vol. 2 

 

Non-Mothership Space Stuff

• Wanderers
• Spaceship Character Class
• Spaceship Encounters
• O'Neill Cylinders 
• Gorgonopsid Space Liches 
• Danscape Planejammer
• d66 TROIKA Spaceships
• Pandora Gate Map (Eclipse Phase)10 Aliens
• More Aliens
• Further Aliens 
• Untitled Space Politics Story, Act 1 
• Untitled Space Politics Story, Setting  
• Orion's Arm Wormhole Map
• 10+20 Questions for Sci Fi Games
• 4 Precursor Aliens
• 6 Spacefaring Aliens
• The Tohuls  
• Orion's Arm Factions, Summarized
• 7 Anomalous Aliens

 

Cthulhu Mythos

• Extrapolating the Mythos
• Return to the Mythos (Gods and Dreams)The First and Last Dynasy of Mu
• The Book of the Night 
• Fellows at the Bottom of the Stairs 
• The Florentine 
• All-Purpose Green Box
• Another Green Box 
• The Black Book of Tsan-Chan 
• Romanizing Cthulhu Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Goodnight, Irene!
• Does Lovecraft Exist in this Mythos Setting?
• August Derleth was an Accidental Genius
• The Polyps 
• Monster Dissection: Gnoph-keh 
• What Do People Know About the Mythos?
• 50 Things You Heard Online About Aklo 

• Delta Green Campaign Report 1 - Player's Guide
• Delta Green Campaign Report 2 - Green Box 
• Delta Green Campaign Report 3 - Library

 

Esoteric Enterprises & Lighthouse

• 20 Questions, Esoteric Enterprises Edition
• Lighthouse Field Guide 1 
• Lighthouse Field Guide 2Lighthouse Field Guide 3 
• Lighthouse Field Guide 4
• Adul-Atpah, City of the Corpse
• Blood Slaves of the Conquerer Worm 
• Lighthouse Rules 0.1
• Jubilee and Briggs: A Lighthouse Contact
• DEAD LOOP 
• Lighthouse Design Corner: Core Mechanics
• Lighthouse Design Corner: Insight
• Spook Templates 
• Semiotic Unstandard
• Cult of Lu (Mystic Cult) 
• Delvers'
• 30 Regions of the Underworld
• 6 Reasons the Tanks have Not Rolled In 

 

Other Settings, Maps, and Conversions

• The World of Fwea 
• Fragments of a Setting on the Steppe
• OSR Banner Saga
• Poetry Challenge Setting
• Pokepointcrawl
• 2017 Year in Review Setting
• OSR Horizon Zero Dawn
• An Evening at the Jasmine Dragon 
• Adapting the SCP Wiki
• Adapting the SCP Wiki 2: Groups of Interest
• The Magnus Archives Post
• Magnus Archives Referee Starter Kit 
• The American Powers (Magnus Archives)
• RED and BLUE Enterprises
• Degenesis and Ruinations
• 10 Monster Setting
• A Tower Unto Heaven
• All Quiet in Canniel Hexmap 
• Pandeimos: A New New Crobuzon
• Disco Elysium All Night Long
• Mass Effect for Mothership
• The Dryad Queen Mother
• A Last Hope In Hell 
• Quick Quest is Cool Stuff
• Along the River Petrichor: an F-122 Setting
• Stand Still, Stay Esoteric
• A Road to Pandemonium
• The Lady of Fangs 
• The Learned Elder Presents 
• Halo for Mothership
• Fixing Eclipse Phase 
• Lovecraft Character Options for Mothership
• Signalis for Mothership 
• Texts of the Atumaic Mysteries

 

Unicorn Meat

• 7 Days of Unicorn Meat
• Carvergirls
• Hooks and Factions
• Ashcan Release Announcement
• Card-Based Expeditions 

 

Conlangs & Linguistics

• Babel Unmanuta, A Dungeon-Delver's Conlang
• Conlang Micro Reviews 
• Using Language in RPGs
• Blog Carnival: Code Talking
• Conlang Sketchbook 1: Space-Age Pronomials
• Conlang Sketchbook 2: Paracelsan Nouns 
• Let's Build a PIE Conlang 1: Intro + First Word
• Let's Build a PIE Conlang 2: Fire and Water
• Let's Build a PIE Conlang 3: Hello Hubris My Old Friend 
• Conlang Scratchpad Spectacular
• Proto-Indo-European Resource Masterpost 

 

A Quest For Leslie Stone

• Intro
• Update 1 

 

The Great Discape

• Part 1, Part 2
• Bestiary 1, Bestiary 2, Bestiary 3
• The Great Discape Arises from the Deep!

Distant Lands of Diy

• Version 1, Version 2
• 3 Years, 300 Posts: Map of the New World

Fantastic Prehistory

• Ancient Epochs 1
• Ancient Epochs 2 
• Gorgonopsid Space Liches

Play Reports

• One offs: 1 (Tomb of the Serpent Kings), 2 (Sleeping Place of the Feathered Swine in Space!)
• Fwea: 1 (Tomb of the Chimera Kings), 2 (Kidnap the Archpriest)
• Diy: 1 (Blood in the Chocolate). 2 (Hot Springs Island)
• DCO With Randos: 1, 2
• D6 Star Wars: 1
• Danscape Adventures: 1, 2, 3,4 & 5
• Delta Green: Operation HYACINTH 
• Esoteric Enterprises: 1, TAKE HOME CONTAINER
• Mothership: GREAT SCREAMING HELL 1, 2, 3, 4,   
• Barbarian Prince
• Thousand Year Old Vampire
• Ironsworn
• The Books Were Wrong, part 2
• The Quiet Year 
• Xenolanguage   
• 60 Years in Space (The Hayashida mission)
• Part 1 - Building the crew
• Part 2 - Crunching numbers
• Part 3 - Mission Year 1
• Part 4 - Mission Years 2-4
• Part 5 - Wrap-up

Reviews 

• 60 Years in Space
• Anime
• Assorted Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
• 2019 Shotgun Scenarios
• Chromatic Soup 
• Coriolis
• Degenesis
• Delta Green Actual Plays Part 1, Part 2
• Delta Green Handler's Guide
• Dredge
• Dungeon Bitches 
• Eclipse Phase 2e
• Elden Ring
• Esoteric Enterprises
• Faux Pas 
• Godkillers, Ynn, Stygian library, Black heart of Paradise, Black Powder Black magic
• Here, There, Be Monsters!
• Hubris
• Fire on the Velvet Horizon
• Kings of the Wyld
• Knave 
• Krevborna
• Lamentations 2
• Lancer 
• The Malazan Book of the Fallen
• Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
• Perdition
• SCP RPG
• Tears of the Kingdom 
• Tome of Beasts
• Shadow of the Demon Lord
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Ultimate Alien Anthology (Star Wars d20) 
• UVG & Others
• Yoon-Suin

• The Inaugural Salty Awards!2021 Salty Awards
• 2022 Salty Awards
• 2023 Salty Awards
• Highlights from The Itch Racial Justice Bundle 

• Untitled Avatar Post
• Lord of the Rings Reread Post 
• Cowboy Bebop Rewatch
• Fullmetal Alchemist Rewatch
• Earthsea Reread
• New Sun Reread: Shadow and Claw
• New Sun Reread: Sword and Citadel
• Technically Not A Homestuck Reread

• Bookpost Special: Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
• Bookpost Special: House of the Rain King  

 

Slush Piles

• Notebook of Unfinished Wonders 
• Notebook of Unfinished Wonders 2
• Notebook of Unfinished Wonders 3 
• Notebook of Unfinished Wonders 4 
• Notebook of Unfinished Wonders 5Slush Pile 6 (Twitter Edition) 
• Slush Pile 7 (Archive Dredging Edition)
• Slush Pile 8 (Burnout Edition)
• Slush Pile 8.5 (Bookmark Edition)
• Slush Pile 9  
• Slush Pile 10
• Slush pile 10.5 (Bookmarks 2)
• Slush Pile 11
• Slush Pile 12 
• Slush Pile 13  
• Slush Pile 14 (Scrapped posts)
• Slush Pile 15
• Slush Pile 16
• Wikipedia Linkdump 1 
• Slush Pile 17
• Wikipedia Linkdump 2 
• Slush Pile 18

 

Dan Plays Games

• Part 1 
• Part 2 
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5 
• Part 6 
• Part 7 
• Part 8
• Expedition 33
• Part 9

 

Positively Unhinged Elden Ring Theoryposting

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Fanfic Hour 

 

Miscellaneous

• The Greasetrap Lesson
• Joyce Byers is the perfect Call of Cthulhu NPC
• Horror is a Living Thing
• Build a Better Cult
• #DIY30 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Womb of Annihilation
• Hoypoloi Sector
• The Podcast Post 
• Son of the Podcast PostSon of the Son of the Podcast Post 
• 40k Ecology
• Star Wars Clearinghouse
• An Account of Inherited Books
• You Remember Our Venerable House... 
• 3 Miniposts 
• Miniposts: Tower Wizards, Funeral Customs, Paracausality 
• Miniposts: Commedia del Donjoniers, More Lost Media, GLOGtober Prompts
• Talking about The Worm Ouroborous
• A Few of My Favorite Things 
• Games in my Folders 
• Booze and Violence!
• Notes from my First Game
• A Character in 13 Items 
• All My other Characters
• Collected Material Evidence 
• Highlights from Heroditus' Histories
• Solo Grimdark Warfare 
  
• Build a Witch Challenge: Maggie Blackthorn 
• Jojiro's GM Exercises 
• Jojiro's GM Exercises II 
• Kult's Tarot Scenario Generation 
• Eerievember Days 1-6 
• Eerievember Days 7-12
• Three Shorts for Dandibuja
• Building Ayo for 5e
• Secret Jackalope 2022 
• Ecstatic Visions 1
• Ecstatic Visions 2
• Quarter Hour of Writing
• The Chatelaine Crepuscular
• Always Work to Be Done: A Solarcrawl Story
• Places to Go in Pittsburgh
• Anonymous Cosmotravellogue
• Pocket Mononoke Cipher
• A Weird History of a Stranger Earth
• The Ogdoad
• Fear and Hunger 2: The First 45 Deaths
• A Week In Ireland
• Exorcists and Wizard-Hunters: Alternate D&D Frameworks
• Sidrak the Sage Asks Some Questions 
• Public Domain Roundup 2026 

 

Year In Review

• 2021
• 2022
• 2023
• 2024
• 2025 

Abandoned Projects

• Delta Eclipse
• Notes Towards a Pyre Tabletop 
• Shadow of the Eschaton
• Solo Survival Game