AV Club - Milwaukee Smoked BBQ

Bay View has a new BBQ place a few blocks from my home. The turkey would have gotten my top recommendation but it was out two out of the three times we visited.

AV Club - Cheapskate Summerfest

Our annual big music festival begins today in Milwaukee. Just in time for a heat wave to bake some drunks with temperatures in the mid to high 90's. This article started as a guide on how to smuggle things into Summerfest, but then we realized getting sued was a bad idea, so it became a cheapskate's guide instead.

Flames Rising - Strongholds of The Empire Review

Another review of the l5r 4e line. This book is only available online. It's also the first print-on-demand book for the line.

Honor and Intrigue - Escape from Castle Island

I love pirates. 7th Sea was my first professional writing gig, but I loved that game long before I got a chance to work on it. For all the pirate movies I've made other people watch, I've watched dozens more.

I happened upon Honor and Intrigue on the web. I liked what I saw, especially since I was looking for different system to run 7th Sea as well as other swashbucklers like Regime Diabolique. I got into a conversation with the creator who mentioned he was a huge fan of 7th Sea. We chatted for a little bit about games, swashbuckling movies and swordfighting mechanics. Then he asked me if I wanted to produce something for his game. I was honored and said yes.

So here's a short little adventure/setting about a Spanish prison island featuring a mystery on the mainland, a treacherous knife wielder and quite a few names you may recognizes. I present Escape From Castle Island.

For those of you looking for a good set of conversion notes to run 7th Sea using Honor and Intrigue, I recommend El Vago's conversion rules.

Onion AV Club - Lasertag Adventure

This article marks the beginning of a recurring series of road trip articles for the summer. If you have any suggestions for places to cover, please let me know.

Onion AV Club - Rest of the Fests

Milwaukee is known for plenty of fests over the summer. Here is an article about ones that are a bit less well-know, including everyone's favorite, the Ren Faire.