It’s Not An Ad, I Promise… Author’s Note: The Sale is now over as of today 2/21/24, however, the US Store is still open and will still sell books. There are still books you can still purchase there but I can’t say whether or not they’ll ship until Raggi finds a new warehouse here in […]

How Michael Ende’s Work Is Grossly Underrated It was a couple of years ago that I found out this was a book. When I watched this movie as a child, I had no idea. The movie itself didn’t pull any punches or explain much. There were quite a few questions I had regarding what happened […]

Also, Killer Deals And Great News. Okay, I’m gonna keep this kinda brief and move on. Ben Riggs got the lowdown and funky on the release dates for the stuff Wizards of The Coast D&D Releases I don’t care about any of them but maybe you will, I dunno, mileage varies here so here goes. […]

Where The Magic Happens… As I’ve stated before, it’s a subject that chafes with me and, in the last article, I detailed how important it is to separate fact from fiction. To recap, parents need to do their jobs more. This has gone beyond raising a little douchebag who thinks it’s cute to be a […]

Why Separation of Fantasy And Reality Is Important More Now Than Ever This is a subject that absolutely chafes at times. I am sitting at my desk and up above me, on the shelves of my desk hutch are a nice library of books. I’ve got Shadowdark, Lamentations of The Flame Princess, Old-School Essentials, Savage […]

Where Do You Go When There’s Nowhere Left. This is where some of you live right now, whether you know it or not. The polarization became so intense that you had people that didn’t like rules doing whatever they wanted, telling you your home was always “problematic” and becoming unreasonable in their demands. Hey, you […]

The Reason I Explore Other Tabletop Role-Playing Games I’ve written an article on why I’m done and moving on from D&D altogether. I’ve seen people point out that the extremes that have popped up (The Rules As Written vs. The Scott Garibays of the world) are but a small sect of actual players. Okay, that, […]

A private space for us to converse and connect Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: the The Raven’s Nest subscriber chat. This is a conversation space in the Substack app that I set up exclusively for my subscribers — kind of like a group chat or live hangout. I’ll post […]

In Order To Defeat The Monsters, Sometimes, You Have To Be The Monsters Okay, so I hope this image stirs something in your mind because I’m about to blow that mind clean out the back of your dome here. You know, for all our dungeon crawling where we wanna kill the monsters, take the treasure […]

How Two Songs By The Same Band Set The Example Some of you may recognize this band. They’ve been around nearly thirty years now. Some of you may not even know who they are. Some of you may hate them and before you click off this article and be like “I’m not fucking reading this.” […]