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About fakedtales

I'm a writer, a podcaster, a reviewer of games. Here's where I share my own fiction and my encounters with other people's media.

Casual Trek Episodes 25, 26 & 27 – One Year Anniversary, Wrath of Khan and Musical Episodes!

Posted on September 11, 2023 by fakedtales

Casual Trek’s Birthday! August marked one year since the start of Casual Trek. In our first 27 episodes we’ve managed to cover 7.91% of Star Trek history. That includes It’s been a fun time, and in episode 26 we took … Continue reading →

Posted in casual trek | Tagged Borg Queen, casual trek, Heists, Khan, Musicals, Picard, podcast, Space Seed, Star Trek, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Star Trek voyager, Subspace Rhapsody, The Doctor, Two of One, Virtuoso | Leave a comment

RPG Quest – May (Part One)

Posted on July 13, 2023 by fakedtales

I decided to focus a bit more on getting through some RPGs this month. There were a couple of quick wins and a couple of lengthy reads, albeit fun ones. The Veil: Cyberpunk RPG By Samjoko Publishing & Fraser Simons … Continue reading →

Posted in General, rpg | Tagged A Grandiose Disaster, Arcana Games, Brabblemark Press, Burning Wheel, Christian Griffey, Eric Simon, Fate, Fraser Simons, Inheritance, MASHED, Meridian, Mina McJanda, Nathan Paoletta, PbtA, Rockalypse, rpg, rpg quest, Samjoko Publishing, Stephanie Bryant, The Frost Papers, the veil, Threatbare, What Ho World | Leave a comment

RPG Quest – April (Part Two)

Posted on July 11, 2023 by fakedtales

I originally aimed not to run as long after splitting March’s reading list into two parts. The thing is, while some of these books were quick reads or didn’t make a great impression with me so I kept them quick, … Continue reading →

Posted in General, rpg | Tagged apocalypse world, Barbarian’s Bloody Quest, Broken Cities, Come Martin, cthulhu dark, Evan rowland, Graham Walmsley, Jesse Ross, Meguey Baker, noirlandia, Possum Creek Games, R’lyehwatch, rpg, rpg quest 2023, The Last Adventure, Thief & Necromancer, Vincent Baker, Wizard’s Grimoire, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast | Leave a comment

RPG Quest – April (Part One)

Posted on July 8, 2023 by fakedtales

This month’s been an interesting one for reading RPGs. It’s involved stretching the rules a bit, and while I’ve not caught up with where I should be at, I’ve definitely accelerated despite adding a number of things onto the list. … Continue reading →

Posted in General, rpg | Tagged 7th sea, Alessandro Piroddi, Aura Belle, blades in the dark, Chris Taylor, era lyres, Grant Howitt, john harper, john wick, josh jordan, laser kittens, rpg, rpg quest 2023, shades of vengeance, singularity, the name of god, unbound rpg | Leave a comment

Casual Trek – Strange New Synergy

Posted on June 26, 2023 by fakedtales

It’s time for some cynical synergy as we decided on the stunt of ranking the first episode of season two of Strange New Worlds! Strange New Worlds “A Quality of Mercy” The finale for Strange New Worlds was an interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in casual trek, General | Tagged podcast, romulans, Star Trek, star trek the original series, strange new worlds | Leave a comment

RPG Quest – March (Part Two)

Posted on June 16, 2023 by fakedtales

We’re in June and I’ve finally remembered to catch up with posting about my findings with reading every RPG book I’ve backed on Kickstarter. I ran a little long when writing about March’s books, so here’s the last seven games … Continue reading →

Posted in rpg | Tagged apocalypse world, burned over, city of winter, lovecraftesque, parliament of supplements, playing nature’s year, rpg, rpg quest, trophy dark | Leave a comment

RPG Quest – March (Part One)

Posted on June 14, 2023 by fakedtales

March was another mixed month. There were some good long reads and games I’ve had for years which I’ve literally never read, but also a few lengthy additions and a realisation of a few extra additions which has shifted the … Continue reading →

Posted in rpg | Tagged call of Cthulhu, curse of the yellow sign, dead scare, downfall, john wick, masks: the new generation, microscope explorer, rpg, the warren | Leave a comment

Casual Trek: Shax’s Second-Best Day

Posted on June 11, 2023 by fakedtales

This one was a weird episode, mainly as two of the episodes were ones I’d seen relatively recently. I knew bad admirals were a thing in Star Trek, but I didn’t know of the trope of ‘Badmirals’ until it was … Continue reading →

Posted in casual trek, General | Tagged Badmirals, Buenamigo, casual trek, lower decks, Picard, podcast, pressman, Star Trek, the next generation | Leave a comment

Casual Trek: Guinan’s Angry Cat Hands

Posted on May 29, 2023 by fakedtales

We’re twenty episodes into Casual Trek! That feels like madness. Also we’re at 50 episodes (well, 50 and a film) into our big list of the best and worst of Star Trek. We pick three episodes based around a theme … Continue reading →

Posted in casual trek | Tagged Borg, Bryan Fuller, casual trek, Guinan, podcast, q, Rhino Borg, Star Trek, Star Trek Prodigy, Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek voyager | Leave a comment

Villagesong RPG Review

Posted on May 5, 2023 by fakedtales

Villagesong by By Vee Hendro & Storybrewers Santi and Arjun watched the river, not looking at each other. There was enough peace between then that they could meet and talk about what to do since the bridges between their villages … Continue reading →

Posted in rpg | Tagged review, rpg, storybrewers, Vee Hendro, Villagesong | Leave a comment