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Here we are in 2016, and the year's first full week of Picks! I go where my game-loving muse takes me, and it took me to some very interesting and fun places this time around. Funny story - I had not grokked that I'd picked two posthumanism-genre game products back-to-back until I'd already...

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Here's hoping everyone had a great New Year's Eve, and that your 2016 is off to a rousing (or restful, as needs be) start! I went with a fairly eclectic set of Picks this week, giving some love to a number of off-the-beaten-path rules sets and/or settings. Though it's true that I - like most of...

With this being the holiday week for Christmas, I sort of gave myself the week off from my regular Picks. "Sort of," in that I decided to do a bunch of Picks on Monday. Since I have some time and headspace to pull that set together for this space, here you go. As you can see, the postings...

And here we are, at long last, looking across the last weekend ere Christmas is upon us! I do hope all of you who celebrate have a grand time with family and friends. For those who do not celebrate, may you still know joy, peace, and comfort in this last week of 2015. I will be honest right up...

The work continues, and we're still hoping for releases in the early part of 2016. However, getting it right trumps any other concerns.

December rolls on at a lightning pace. The sights and sounds of the holidays surround us, immersing us in the impending experience of the most incredible holiday celebration weekend of all - December 18th-20th - Star Wars: The Force Awakens! OK, so there's also that Christmas thing, but for most...

Here we are, well into the first week of December, and many of you are thinking of gift-giving. Not only should you consider what you wish to give your friends and fellow gamers, you may also wish to get a Wish List put together of things you'd really like to get. It seems self-serving, I know...

This week, a number of folks - including our illustrious host, Russ Morrissey, have celebrated the nearly-year of Picks of the Weeks I've done here on EN World. I am humbly honored by the attention, and I hope you've enjoyed them as much as I've enjoyed bringing them to you. I'd like to take...

Teach Your Kids to Game Week is well underway, and I have to say that I remain very proud of my part in creating and launching it as an annual event. Sure, it's a sales opportunity for my friends at DriveThruRPG*, but it's also a very worthy idea that we should all take to heart. Stirring the...

To be clear, I am not a wrestler, nor is my partner-in-crime. We are working on developing two characters with them, which are currently "in the audience only" personas for now. I'm Big Irish, and my buddy, Donavin Santini, is The Big Don. Together, we're known as "The Interested Parties." If...

Honestly, I did not set out to do this! It was only this morning, as I made my last Pick for the week, that I realized I'd pretty much covered five classic genre categories, one each day of this week. Seriously, look at them - Steampunk; Horror (with Post-Apocalypse thrown in on that one)...

Did I start another flame war by accident? Again? Perhaps I should amend my statement to say "the geekiest of all the *major* holidays." As for all the *other* holidays, I might go so far as to claim March 4th AKA GM's Day as the true winner of the category. ;-)

For much of the world, it's All Hallow's Eve (AKA Halloween AKA Samhain), which is the gateway to the Holiday Season. For Americans, this means places like Cracker Barrel have already begun pimping Christmas like it's a Kickstarter on its last days, and the battle strategies for Black Friday are...

I go where my muse takes me, and this week, it wandered mostly through various editions of D&D, plus a couple of Savage Worlds settings. Things got steamy a couple of times, and I even threw in a Bonus Pick from DriveThruCards. I want to go ahead and head off any trolling about my Pick of the 4e...

Here we are at Con on the Cob - which is absolutely one of the most enjoyable and raucous convention experiences I've ever known - and thanks to Carinn finally getting me to load up the laptop, I've managed to stay on top of Picks here. Even better, here's this week's roundup of Picks. I gotta...

I rarely start out with a theme in mind when I start doing Picks for the week, but there are times when one seems to evolve. The nature of the more recent releases sometimes informs that, but there's also a basic intuition at work. This week, it feels pretty Old School, even though some of...

As promised, here's this week's Picks, actually on the right day. For those who've been so kind in expressing concern - I am fine. A bit more at the end, if you care. In the meantime, I want to call your attention to the fact that it's October already! Why is it that, as we get older, time flies...

Appreciate the kind words and support. I will say that I think there's a ton of great stuff that comes across this site, and I am grateful to Morrus for letting me be a part of it. ~SPF

I was in pretty rough shape last week, friends, and I am still healing. It's a long story, but my ongoing health travails took an ugly turn as I developed an ugly wound-based case of cellulitis. I tell you this as a means of explanation for why the Picks roundup went missing last Friday...