For my sixth birthday, my dad bought me a present that ended up shaping my entire life: HeroQuest, a fantasy adventure board game designed by ex-Games Workshop designer Stephen Baker, after he moved to Milton Bradley. I’m not sure what it was that prompted him to get it for me…

Want to skip the preamble? Scroll down to the “Step One” header below. Since I started talking about ADHD, I’ve had a surprising number of people tell me that it’s opened their eyes to their own symptoms, and ask me what the best process is for getting a diagnosis. …

If you’ve been following me for a while, you might know that I was recently diagnosed with Adult ADHD. I wrote a thing on here a while ago about my journey towards diagnosis, and I keep meaning to get around to writing about the diagnosis itself, but for some reason…

Over the past few years (since I started doing a creative job, coincidentally or not) I’ve noticed myself struggling more and more with working memory. My brain feels clogged up, “low on RAM”, and just generally clunky. I’ll have moments where I lose track of what I’m meant to be…

If you’re just here for the Band of Blades tips, and you don’t care about the broader context, skip down to the “Preamble Over” header. I won’t be offended! A few years ago I ran Blades in the Dark for the first time, after reading about it on Shut Up…

CW: Mental health stuff A while ago, someone included me in a list of “people to follow” on Twitter. The comment that ran alongside the recommendation was something like “very wordy, but worth reading”. I was surprised by the “wordy” part, but I really shouldn’t have been. My teenage years…