Alex Keane

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    Reviews and thoughts about games, books, and life.

    • Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

      Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

      This was not my first time reading Three Parts Dead. In fact, I pre-ordered it when it first came out and read it then. Max Gladstone just released the second book of a sequel series to the original Craft Sequence books and in getting ready to read the Craft Wars books, I decided to go…

    • Steel Guardian by Cameron Coral

      Steel Guardian by Cameron Coral

      I really enjoyed reading Steel Guardian by Cameron Coral. I think I got it on some sort of sale, based on reading the premise of “janitor robot must protect human baby while wandering though the wasteland of the AI Uprising Apocalypse”. Premise That quick statement is basically the entire premise and plot of the book.…

    • Session Stories: 3/16/24 Warforged or Warforged Unknown

      My Pathfinder game is having a short break between sessions with the usual scheduling issues we’re all familiar with. The week was also a rough one for me with the first anniversary of my mom dying, so I still wanted to get some game time in. Only one of my usual players was available, so…

    • Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Faerie Dragon

      Like I did with my post on the Blink Dog, this post is based not on current prep, but on a monster I’ve greatly enjoyed from past editions of Pathfinder and of Dungeons & Dragons. This post is going to focus on the Faerie Dragon, a monster I’ve used as a familiar for spellcasters in…

    • Squishy Mage Field Guide: Blink Dog

      My Pathfinder game is on a short hiatus with some scheduling issues, so rather than picking monsters from what I’ve prepped for a session like I did with the Skeletal Champion or Fungus Leshy, I’m taking a stroll through the Pathfinder Bestiaries looking for things that I like. Today, I’m picking a classic dungeon fantasy…

    • Squishy Mage Field Guide: Fungus Leshy

      Squishy Mage Field Guide: Fungus Leshy

      Continuing on from my last Field Guide post, I’ll discuss more of the creatures encountered in my last session of The Seventh Arch. Leshys are one of my favorite Pathfinder monsters. They have a similar “small low level monster” feel to kobolds and goblins, but aren’t a Dungeons and Dragons staple. They feel different, and…

    • Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Skeletal Champion

      Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Skeletal Champion

      Like with my entry on the Tree Fisher, today’s entry is inspired by a monster that came up in my last Pathfinder session. In the second room of the last session, my players encountered three Skeletal Champions. These skeletons are a little different from the run-of-the-mill Skeleton Guards this group has faced in the past.…

    • Session Stories: 2/24/24 Pathfinder Session

      Last Saturday, I played another game in my ongoing Pathfinder 2e game. We’re playing through the Gatewalkers Adventure Path. This session was the second session of the third chapter of the first book of the adventure path: The Seventh Arch. I’ve written about the greater number of the party before in my post: Sketching the…

    • Protect The Child Playtest by Mint Rabbit

      Protect The Child Playtest by Mint Rabbit

      Last night, I got a couple of my players together to try Protect the Child, a game by Mint Rabbit who you may also have come across as the person behind There’s a TTRPG for That on Tumblr. Premise The basic premise behind Protect the Child is that everyone in the party is a monster.…

    • Lore24 Week 3 Recap

      Lore24 Week 3 Recap

      This week I’ve continued writing about my Supernatural Social Workers setting on my Mastodon Profile. I’ve started focusing less on facts of the setting and more on creating some of the characters and organizations that exist in the setting. Like last week, I’m going to make the recap more interesting by adding photos from an…

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