It was a year of people discussing and arguing and disagreeing and leaving our community for dreams of a better place, and it was a year we gathered around the campfire to sing and dance and laugh and cry on each others' shoulders.
It was a quiet year, and then the Frost Shepherds arrived.
It was the year we cried when our bears got killed by the marauders and it was the year we took in the bear cubs into our camp to raise them along with our own.
It was the year of the bears - so many bears - terrorizing and mangling and killing the bravest of us and twarting any attempts at keeping them contained, and it was the year we used bear shit to fertilize our fields and bear fur to keep us warm and even tamed bears to fight the marauders.
It was the year we restored the old coal mine and reforged old weapons into farming tools, and it was the year we reforged these tools again into swords and knives to fend off the northern marauders pillaging our food supplies.
It was the year the self-proclaimed priest convinced us to restore the statue of the rainbow goddess and construct a temple in her honor, and it was the year the priest left our community and we repurposed the temple as a sleeping hall so our children wouldn't freeze in the cold winter nights.
It was a year of relative peace in our mountain valley, between the polluted river and the old battlefield full of debris and scrap metal.
It was the year young Yasmin inspired us all to clean up the river together so we could catch fish again, and it was the year she left us to go live with her love of the Mushroom people in the east.
Zero session last night and trying our hand at a multiverse jumping series of #ttrpg s. #SpeedRune remains as our rules-light origin game for this second try, and I pulled an enchanted defense scenario out of a D&D third post random tables book.
One of us is excited to create a pantheon from the runic powers and another is a first time player. Figured on meeting every couple of weeks and maybe #yazebasbedandbreakfast, #bladesinthdark, or #thequietyear are up next. #indieTTRPGs #indiettrpg
I absolutely adore this podcast interview with Emily Friedman about ttrpgs, scholarly research on actual play, and what I'd call a form of mindfulness in life. I'm always very happy to have the opening of Yazeba being quoted in full. It's very approachable to people unfamiliar with ttrpgs, too.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4clzplqnpT5hYm3CNZAQ4s?si=DHf7P4ecQQ25HLm2Yysp8g
#ttrpg #podcast #YazebasBnB #TheQuietYear #ForTheQueen #AliceIsMissing
July Roundtable: Summer Fashion
In July's roundtable, two Sidequest editors come together to discuss summer fashion in games. Can Astarion pull off that hat? You decide.
https://sidequest.zone/2025/07/21/july-roundtable-summer-fashion/
#Roundtables #TabletopGames #VideoGames #BaldursGate3 #DragonAge2 #HeavyRain #Mouthwashing #TheQuietYear
Just wrapped my CRIT early bird session of The Quiet Year and it was a blast!
If you've not had the chance to play The Quiet Year I highly recommend it. The game will make you flex your storytelling muscles in such a great way!
Get TQY here https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year/
Join me and others for the week of gaming that is CRIT at https://gameatcrit.com/
Dregntael
C Acantigüe
Sidequest
Andrew (he/him)