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Smaug, or, The Hidden Goblin Under The Mountain

Posted on May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 by morgue

Post #9 in the Hidden Gobin series spoils The Hobbit and introduces The Rule of Smaug!

Hidden Goblins in B/X

Posted on March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 by morgue

Post #8 in the Hidden Gobin series rewrites Basic D&D with some hidden goblin rules!

Radio NZ interview March 2017

Posted on April 17, 2017April 25, 2017 by morgue

On March 30, I was a guest on Radio NZ’s Nights show with Bryan Crump. This was for the Thursday… Read more Radio NZ interview March 2017

Dark Carnival: Notes on a Call of Cthulhu adventure

Posted on November 28, 2016April 19, 2017 by admin

Notes and advice on a much-maligned 1980s adventure for the Call of Cthulhu RPG that I ran to excellent effect in 2016.

The game design of “The Tyrannosaurus Game”

Posted on February 3, 2016April 19, 2017 by morgue

The Tyrannosaurus Game is a children’s book by Steven Kroll. It was first published in 1976, but I’m reading the… Read more The game design of “The Tyrannosaurus Game”

The game design of Isabel Allende’s “Ripper”

Posted on November 1, 2015April 19, 2017 by morgue

[Note: this is spoiler-free!] Literary heavyweight Isabel Allende published in 2014 a crime novel, Ripper. A fascinating, swirling study of… Read more The game design of Isabel Allende’s “Ripper”

The game design of Pitch Perfect

Posted on May 15, 2015April 19, 2017 by morgue

The best scene in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect is the Riff-Off. If you’ve never seen it, watch it above.… Read more The game design of Pitch Perfect

Life’s Lottery/Choose Your Own Autobiography

Posted on March 17, 2015April 19, 2017 by morgue

I recently read two interactive books that, instead of recounting an adventure, explored a person’s life. The first was Neil Patrick Harris’s… Read more Life’s Lottery/Choose Your Own Autobiography

Our Engagement Recipe

Posted on February 2, 2015April 19, 2017 by morgue

As discussed on the About page, Taleturn is home to some powerful ingredients: story, interactivity, and social psychology. Together they… Read more Our Engagement Recipe

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