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Behind the Scenes: Stone Up

Behind the Scenes: Stone Up

Shao and I were sitting in a Dunkin Donuts in early August, rained out of a research walk along the Singapore River, when I said, “Hey, wanna do something special for National Day?” “Like what?” “I don’t know, maybe just like a pregen character? Doesn’t […]

RPG Fragility – Illness

RPG Fragility – Illness

Hello! Shao here. I’m starting a new series of blog posts tagged as ‘RPG Fragility’ – these are meditations on themes and situations of weakness and suffering, as well as my ramblings of how gaming groups might handle and explore these ideas in their stories […]

New game! Cats & Flowers

New game! Cats & Flowers

Not too long ago, I was invited to a hen’s night out for one of my ex-colleagues. The organiser of the party was another younger ex-colleague from the same department. “Alanna,” the text invite started, “we’re doing these station games for Mel. Do you have […]

Major announcement for 2018! Patreon and Product line

Major announcement for 2018! Patreon and Product line

We’re so excited to share with you the following three-part announcement! 1. Patreon Launch Curious Chimeras has launched our Patreon! We hope you can support us on our journey as we push towards creating and publishing games of our own. Patrons will receive a variety […]

Thank you for Gaming for Goodness!

Thank you for Gaming for Goodness!

Hello everyone! We’re happy to announce that we raised SGD$1200 (47,533 PHP) with our Gaming for Goodness (SG) event last Sunday! This amount will join the funds raised by our allies, Gamers and GMs Philippines, and go towards the provision of educational resources and facilities […]

Weird Worlds Retrospective 3: Muddy the Waters!

Weird Worlds Retrospective 3: Muddy the Waters!

After the ‘CONCurrent Lessons’ panel, the panelists and audience scattered into different directions; we all had different games to organize, attend, and run! It was truly a very busy day, but I loved every second of it! For this segment, I was supposed to prepare […]

‘Weird Worlds’ Retrospective 2: CONCurrent Lessons – GM Panel

‘Weird Worlds’ Retrospective 2: CONCurrent Lessons – GM Panel

After the ‘Marsh Ado About Nothing’ workshop, I was able to have a quick lunch with one of the GMs who attended my workshop (hey there, Kendrick! man, that McDo fried chicken lunch knocked me out…), and got ready for my second major activity of […]

‘Weird Worlds’ Retrospective: Marsh Ado About Nothing

‘Weird Worlds’ Retrospective: Marsh Ado About Nothing

A couple of weekends ago, I attended the wonderful ‘Weird Worlds’ event as a guest speaker and GM. The awesome folks over at Gamers and GMs Philippines had invited Curious Chimeras over to present a workshop, take part in a panel, and run a game for […]

Up Your Game! Workshop series by the Curious Chimeras

Up Your Game! Workshop series by the Curious Chimeras

We’re running a series of workshops at our friendly local store Grey Ogre Games and we’d love for you to be there! Each session stands alone, but effectively work together to form a cohesive lesson plan put together for beginning Dungeon Masters. GenCon panelist and […]

Week 3 of Saintrest!

Week 3 of Saintrest!

  Week 3 of Tales of Saintrest was a great time for our DMs and players. Each group had a distinctly different adventure that involved everything from our grizzled mercenary Timaeus successfully bluffing some evil minions that he was their missing boss Lamech in a […]