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.

Playful Void reviews Tomb Robbers of the Crystal Frontier.

I’ll start with the thing that initially strikes you: This book is hot.

I liked Crystal Frontier too and wrote up a hack of it for Into the Odd.

Evelyn Moreau is an amazing artist whose art is also all over OSR work.

Go check out her Patreon.

I particularly dig her work when she blends genres together into a delicious science-fantasy melange as she does in the Creature Collection (PDF, print) but as the warrior woman to the right shows, her fantasy work is awesome too.

I am digging into Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng for a book club at work and it is a harrowing all-too-real dystopia about a tomorrow-or-the-next-day-future U.S.A. in which legislation called PACT turns the country on its ear. The father of the protagonist works as a shelver in the library, so the way libraries, stories and information are regulated is a big part of the book. Between the library stuff and the missing mother – this book is hitting me right where I live.

3 episodes in as of last night and I’m not sure if I like it as a work on its own or as a sequel or anything.

The cast is amazing and I’ll watch until I figure out my feelings on it as a whole. There’s something more to be learned from post-first-season True Detective and sequels to successful RPG campaigns.