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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.

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.

Some Esperanto words can be parsed into roots and affixes in multiple ways.

Early versions of my civ-lite BASIC game, Cycladic League.

A look at seven word forms in Esperanto that are homographs.

The details and discoveries tables from “The Paths of Ateşkazé” by Jeremy Strandberg in Perilous Almanacs remain my favorite caving adventure.

Mango man, mango man
Thinks he’s the entire universe, man
Usually mean to smaller man
Mango man
Is he depressed or is he a mess?
Does he feel totally worthless?
Who came up with mango man?
Degraded man, mango man.

As an adult, I rarely try to do things I’m no good at. At work, I do things I’ve done for decades. Same for my hobbies.

Trying something new means being embarrassingly bad at it.

That was awkward and difficult to work through.

I developed Cycladic League by re-imaging what Cyclades might be like it were a BASIC game, then iterating on the design in an agile fashion.