As heard on the Daydreaming about Dragons podcast, the Inspiration Goat helps me process media and take parts that are useful for the gaming table.

This isn’t about the hottest new thing or the crowdfunding with the biggest payday; it is just a few geeky things that are inspiring me.

The Indie RPG Newsletter is always one of the first things I look at on Sunday morning. the tradition of it makes me feel like a TV dad in a 50’s sitcom, spreading out the newspaper with a pipe in my mouth. This week, Narrative Combos!

Better Legends is a local Ithaca artist whose re-imaginings of D&D are always delightful. Check out this green dragon on his patreon.

I have a piece of his up on my study wall and hope I get to give him money for a big ole beautiful dragon book some day.

I wasn’t jumping on Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky, third book of this amazing Space Opera trilogy. Grabbed the audiobook and I’m chewing right through it. Loving how the factions change in this third book and how amazingly strange the aliens are.

Tower Dungeon is a fun manga by Nihei Tsutomu. You can read it here. 2 chapters in and I’m hooked. In some ways, a very familiar dungeon crawl and in other ways, deliciously strange in ways that keep it fresh for me.

I picked up the first 3 graphic novels of his Blame! series too.

Got more and more intrigued by the megadungeon, Arden Vul, after listening to 3d6 Down the Line (also, listened to them enough on the work commute that I bought their XP variant rules).

Made the plunge when it showed up on the Bundle of Holding.

Trying to figure out where I have space in my life to run it. Not seeing that space in my calendar at the moment but stay tuned…