• GASLANDS – Straight To Hell (MEPACON, Spring 2025)

    GASLANDS – Straight To Hell (MEPACON, Spring 2025)

    Guns. Gas. And only one way to go: Straight! Learn how to play Gaslands Refueled in this introductory session at MEPACON’s Spring 2025 convention (April 4-6, 2025) in Lehigh Valley, PA. All you need to do is get from Point A to Point B without crashing into a wall, sliding into an obstacle, or getting … Read more

  • Fallout 2d20: Meet Steve NuGunnar

    Fallout 2d20: Meet Steve NuGunnar

    Back when the new Fallout series debuted on Amazon Prime, the Lair of Secrets crew geeked out about how good the series was … and about the possibility of running a Fallout 2d20 campaign. That led to David Moore putting together a Fallout adventure as our next actual play for the podcast. After doing a 1st level playlets, we decided to … Read more

  • Ghost Station

    Ghost Station

    Space is a big and lonely place, and that isolation can do strange and terrible things to people’s minds. In S.A. Barnes’ Ghost Station (Amazon), it can lead to a mental disorder known as Eckhart-Reiser Syndrome (ERS). The syndrome leads to mental decline, ultimately leading to a catastrophic break with reality … as well as murder … Read more

Eclipse 2024

Burlington, VT was one of the best places to see 2024’s eclipse, and I was there, watching the sky turn dark with my daughter and son. Read the post.

Summer Reading 2024

Nuketown’s 17th Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Summer Reading List is over, but you can still read the book reviews!

Project: Ready Player One Replay

The Ready Player One Replay is an ongoing exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Love it or hate it, there’s value in revisiting our geeky roots.

Column: Game Day

Nuketown’s Game Day columns focus on running and playing in RPG campaigns, from prep to execution to reflection.

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