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2025: Full Year, Full Time

2025: Full Year, Full Time

2025 was a big year of growth, new partnerships, and bringing tabletop roleplaying games to new audiences across the Twin Cities and beyond. Sortilege had: * 190+ sessions gamemastered * 27 unique game systems run * 5 conventions attended * 2 schools served through after-school programs * 2 festivals organized * 1 crowdfunding campaign fulfilled * 1

Halloween is Coming

Halloween is Coming

A much-belated newsletter; as a result it's super long. My apologies. I've tried to keep the important things at the top. First, Patreon You should join it, here. We'll be kicking off November with a bunch of pre-generated character sheets for Ars Magica and

Report from GenCon25

Report from GenCon25

It's been a couple months, you're overdue for some updates. I (Jordan) am currently at GenCon in Indianapolis for the first time, running The Expanse and The Fifth Season for Green Ronin Games, and Fallen London for Magpie. If you're around, drop in and

CONvergence Postmortem

CONvergence Postmortem

We just wrapped up four days of gaming at CONvergence in Minneapolis, courtesy of Badwolf Adventure Studios. Sadly, the Thursday Break!! game had no players; we're figuring out where the miscommunication happened. The fact that it got classified as a Kids game (that seemed to imply kids-only), and

Imagination & Liberation Festival Debrief

Imagination & Liberation Festival Debrief

It started with a phone call with Hunter from Badwolf (formerly of Mercury Adventure Studios). We were both excited about the possibility space of using roleplaying games to support emancipatory politics, and began brainstorming. Life kept him busy, but I ended up running with the idea, which became the Imagination

All the news

Powered by Badwolf Our work with Badwolf Adventure Studios is taking a new shape with Powered by Badwolf. We will be announcing games in various venues around the Twin Cities that leverage the many partnerships Badwolf has while bringing new games to new audiences. Which games exactly? That's

Con of the North 2025

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Con of the North 2025

Register for our games at Con of the North 2025!

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X-FRONT

Teenage mutants have been getting taken to rural camps where they are supposedly "fixed". As mutants who have evaded or escaped similar fates, you believe direct action is necessary and warranted: and you have a lead on a young woman who has just been taken.

Theros, The Fallow Season (D&D Campaign)

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Theros, The Fallow Season (D&D Campaign)

With the harvests across Theros having utterly failed, a massive store of grain & wine becomes the most sought-after prize of the Iroan games. Sabotage, partiality, cheating, and mob violence threatens to tear apart an event intended to bring the cities and cultures of Theros together.

2024 Year in Review

2024 Year in Review

Hello hello, Jordan here, with a little synopsis of what we accomplished this year with Sortilege. The first part of 2024 was quiet; between illness and a new baby, I took a few months off and kept things quiet. But beginning in May, we started ramping up local events again.

An October Update from Sortilege 🎃

Dreadfest, Twin Cities Con, and startplaying.games RSVP to upcoming events Halloween approaches, and with it we bring Dreadfest IV to a close this coming weekend. Thank you to everyone who made it a success, and who attended our Werewolf: the Apocalypse and Cy_borg games. There are a lot

Open Streets, TCSW, Dreadfest, Bad Wolf, Leder

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Open Streets, TCSW, Dreadfest, Bad Wolf, Leder

That's right, Sortilege will be at Open Streets this year. So far we're confirmed for Open Streets Lyndale on August 24th (we'll be outside of Baba's south of 22nd), and Open Streets Nicollet on September 28th. We're hoping to get

Roleplaying Games, September-December

Roleplaying Games, September-December

Tonight marks the end of our summer sessions: thank you to everyone who came to events at Volstead's Emporium, The Wilderness, and Free RPG Day at Tower Games. We're happy to announce that we will be partnering with Bad Wolf Adventure Studios, Oddmart, The Coven, and

Interested Parties: Looking Ahead to Autumn

We're entering our second month of RPGs in Uptown Minneapolis. Last month we had games of Vampire, Werewolf, Legend of the Five Rings, Xenolanguage, and more. For July we have World of Darkness games at the Wilderness every Tuesday night, and a game of Alien add Oddmart. But

Announcing RPG Residencies in Uptown Minneapolis

Announcing RPG Residencies in Uptown Minneapolis

We are ecstatic to announce that there will be a variety of roleplaying games available this summer in and around uptown Minneapolis. On Tuesday nights we'll be exploring the World of Darkness with games such as Vampire, Hunter, and Werewolf, hosted by The Wilderness, a co-working space underneath

GM Academy and Free RPG Day

Here's the expected schedule: * 10:30: GM and Storytelling tips: Cultivating your Creative Process, Ezra * 11:30: Breathing Life into Random Encounters, Justin Alexander * 1: How to Start a Campaign - Meet in a Tavern vs. Inciting Incident, Tony * 2: Kevdar the Mighty says Hello - How to

Dreadfest III: Bluebeard's Bride

Dreadfest III: Bluebeard's Bride

Sign up for Bluebeard's Bride, all Saturday's in October at The Source.

Characters Without Stories - Podcast Appearance

Characters Without Stories - Podcast Appearance

A huge shout-out to Star, who I met originally through their TikTok and through some shared TTRPG Discords (including Titterpig, which is great for those looking to learn an RPG outside of Dungeons & Dragons). Star has been running a podcast for a while now called Characters Without Stories, highlighting

What the hell is an exploded-view campaign?

What the hell is an exploded-view campaign?

Un Coup de Des is an autopsy upon a specific campaign, using it's successes and failures to demonstrate how you can make a satisfying, player-driven, improvisational campaign.

Free RPG Day 2023

Free RPG Day 2023

Join us at Tower Games for Free RPG Day to play The One Ring, Eclipse Phase, or Haunted West.

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Become a preview reader for Un Coup de Des: An Exploded-View Campaign of Surrealist Magic.