Thing of Things | The gradual supplanting of the natural by the just

After five years on WordPress, Thing of Things is moving to Substack!
I have been pretty dissatisfied with WordPress for a while, as they have replaced their good text editor with an abominably awful text editor. Substack has a much better one. I also want to be one of the cool kids and everyone else is doing it....

Today I want to tell you about one simple house rule which really improves my games.
My Call of Cthulhu campaign is mostly classic, with squishy investigators who are easily torn apart by monsters if they don’t go mad first. So far the five-person party has lost three investigators in three months of in-game time. However, there is one...

I recently made a quiz about what Americans believe about animal rights, and the results shocked a lot of people. 74% of Americans think that animals have rights? 32% think that animals have the same rights as people to be free from harm and exploitation...

When I see people talk about polyamory, one concern they often have is that the partner who’s more attractive (or female) will be out every night sleeping with a new person, while the partner who’s less attractive (or male) will spend all their nights...