Posting Less and Opening Up the Back Catalog
tl;dr: I intend to reduce my posting to once a month, but I’m getting rid of the paywall on the back catalog. I’ve also made some tweaks to the search and filter function so it’s easier to find the exact thing you need amid hundreds of old posts to fit your game tonight, be it […]
Three-Month Hiatus and the Future of the Blog
This week marks six years of the Molten Sulfur Blog. In all that time, I’ve never missed a weekly update. But I need to think about what the future holds. This blog is not going away – I love doing it, and I’m not going to stop. But it is going on hiatus for three months […]
Ballad Hunters: Early-Access Zine Edition now on Kickstarter!
I’m running a Kickstarter campaign right now for an early-access zine edition of Ballad Hunters. It’s a tabletop RPG where amateur folklorists fight magical folk ballads as agents of the Crown in 1813 England and Scotland. The folk ballads of the common people are coming to life. Where ballads are sung, sometimes the lyrics take hold of people, […]
The Feuding Goldmine Boomtown Choirs & Annual State of the Blog
The adjoining towns of Ballarat and Sebastopol in Victoria, southeast Australia, were gold rush boomtowns in the second half of the 19th century. They were home to a thriving Welsh immigrant community and a number of Welsh cultural institutions. Among these were two mens’ choruses: the Gomer Choir and the Cambrian Vocal Union. These choruses, […]
Shanty Hunters nominated for two Indie Groundbreaker Awards!
Shanty Hunters, my tabletop RPG about collecting magical sea shanties in the year 1880, just got nominated for two more cool awards! The Indie Game Developer Network (IGDN) runs the annual Indie Groundbreaker Awards, and Shanty Hunters was nominated for Most Innovative and Game of the Year. Which of the nominees won will be announced […]
Shanty Hunters just won a 2022 ENNIE award!
Shanty Hunters, my tabletop RPG about collecting magical sea shanties in the year 1880, just won a really cool award! The ENNIE Awards are the highest-profile awards in the tabletop RPG space. The ENNIEs have five judges (who change every year), and they decide nominations for categories like ‘Best Adventure’ or ‘Best Game’. A week […]
Welcome to the new Molten Sulfur Blog!
I’m super excited to unveil two new pieces of functionality here on the Molten Sulfur Blog! The first is that the back catalog is now vastly more searchable. There’s a search bar on every page: in the sidebar on desktop and at the bottom of the page on mobile. On the results page, you can […]
The Jicarilla Escape and Blog News!
In 1883, the Jicarilla Apache nation was forcibly moved from land they’d been promised as their reservation to the reservation of a sister nation, that of the Mescalero Apaches. Neither group was happy with this state of affairs. Three years later, the Jicarilla Apaches snuck out of the Mescalero reservation in a blinding blizzard to […]
Liberating the Edward A. Horton and Blog News!
As games like Shadowrun and Leverage have taught us, heists are great. But while heisting corporate secrets, priceless antiquities, or bearer bonds might come as no surprise, what about heisting a fishing boat? One impounded by the Canadian government? And working alongside the American fishermen she was seized from in the first place? I present […]
A Play During Travel and Blog News
1607 saw the world’s first amateur performance of Shakespeare – and not where you might expect. It occurred aboard the British merchant ship Red Dragon off the coast of West Africa. The cast and crew were all sailors. And it’s a wonderful example of how you can run a play at your table. Let’s take […]
Crop Marks, Dungeons, & An Announcement!
First, an announcement: something enormous just happened in my life. Thursday was my last day in the U.S. Navy! After six years of service, I’m on to new challenges. Joining the Navy was the best decision I ever made, and I think leaving will be up there too. I’m going to be doing a lot […]
The Marquis de St. Jacques and 1-Year Anniversary
An obscure figure from Indian colonial history, the Marquis de St. Jacques (pronounced ’Sa Jack’) was a French renegade, a mercenary, a scoundrel, and a great inspiration for a similar NPC at your table. The Marquis de St. Jacques (all the sources I can find refer to him only by that name) was a soldier […]