A Water(b)logged Introduction

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Hi, River here, and welcome to the Cartoika of Curiosities, our new blog on all things tabletop, borne from a desire to talk about TTRPGs in a space that isn't an ephemeral Discord server, fun and useful as those might be in this day and age.

Here you might find everything from musings on RPGs we do (or don't) like, game design thoughts, actual play reports from campaigns we might run or play, and whatever else we might think of.

There are a few TTRPG-related posts we hope to bring over to here from our general-purpose Tumblr blog, but we intend to write some Cartoika-original stuff soon as well! Lord knows the TTRPG space can use more blogs that aren't strictly OSR- or D&D-oriented - we might not have quite the knack for writing insightful essays into weird indies as A.A. Voigt (a great YouTuber whom you should check out), but it is the sort of thing we hope to cultivate here.

Lastly: You might ask, what's a 'cartoika' anyway? Well, to quote The Wildsea...

This is not meant to be a purely Wildsea blog, but with it being one of our all-time favorite TTRPGs both mechanically and narratively, it only makes sense to honor it this way.