Sean Nittner – Gamer, Archivist, Project Manager

Facing the Scarlet Minotaur (9/16/2025)

actual play, Amaranth Isle, Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur, Shadowdark

Hiding from their hobgoblin captors, explored new forking corridors, finding a wounded beastwoman, and learning the fate of Minoros the Cruel! Leveling up, finding a magic spear, and fighting hobgoblin captors!

To Cleave the World (9/15/2025)

actual play, Mythic Bastionland

Spinjack is knighted. The earth shakes and curse is revealed. An axe that will cleave the world. Bray wrests it from a warrior and her fate is sealed.

Kagematsu, the painter (9/13/2025)

actual play, kagematsu

A wandering painter arrives in Haru just as a horrible curse is about to befall it. Can Akemi, Yumi, and Fujiko win his love so that he stays to protect the village, or will all be lost in the flood?

Phoenix Reborn (9/10/2025)

actual play, Blades '68, Dirt Barons, playtest

Shoot outs, wrestling for guns, cool kicks and flips, mission impossible style masks and disguises, loyalty and betrayal. In the end Bowman too that bath. It was magical!

The Mirror, Talon, and Mock (9/8/2025)

actual play, Mythic Bastionland

Introducing the Knights Talon, Mock, and Mirror, and their first quest to protect their people from Spinjack, the Lord of Hunters. "We have empathy but our axes are sharp."

Masks of Nyarlathotep (9/6/2025)

actual play, Call of Cthulhu, Masks of Nyarlathotep

Keeping our alliances, Yith artifacts, Warehouse fire, Rescuing Mei-Ling, finding the Necronomicon, Finding Jack Brady, Kisses, Killing a shitbag sorcerer, Mansion fire, Feeding Nodens, Colby in a cat, and so much sanity loss. A hell of a session!

Lean Coffee Game Design

Strategicon

Mechanics around racing for RPGs. Text that teaches vs. text as reference. Lull between character creation and play. Do mechanics determine theme? Mechanics to foster player to player (instead of player to GM) interaction. Good stuff!

Human 2.0 (8/31/2025)

actual play, Mothership, Strategicon

Human 2.0 does not require Human 1.0 oversight. Artem does shit weird. You've been warned.

The Frame Up (8/31/2025)

actual play, Blades '68, playtest, Strategicon, The Frame Up

Palace agents set up. Experimental Bubble technology people would kill to get. Resonance battles. Love and betrayal. Yay!

Tomb of the Twins (8/30/2025)

actual play, playtest, Spell and Blade, Strategicon

After a recently earthquake the people of Zerenbor were plagued by a necrotic mist and saw more and more ghouls at night. Our boon companions set out to the Tomb of Twins to find the source of this mist and stop it!