This week I've got Nova, aka Idle Cartulary, of the excellent Playful Void blog among other places linked below. Nova's one of my favorite writers in the, as she puts it, DIY elf game scene, and I knew that was a world I wanted to cover more this season.

Nova brought on the rumor table from Zedeck Siew's Lorn Song of the Bachelor, an excellent elf game adventure. We got to talk about what makes a good random table at large, our taste in how adventures are written, and how point of view is the thing that often turns serviceable fiction into real primo shit.

Further Reading:

Nova’s kickstarter for The Curse of Mizzling Grove

Dice Exploder on pick lists

Lorn Song of the Bachelor

The Isle, in print and on itch

Socials

Nova’s blog, ⁠Playful Void⁠

Nova’s podcast, ⁠Dungeon Regular⁠

Nova’s games ⁠on itch⁠

Sam on ⁠Bluesky⁠ and ⁠itch⁠.

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