John Brieger
@johnbrieger.bsky.social
Studio Head & Board Game Developer at Brieger Creative. BizDev at Solis Games Studio.
https://briegercreative.com
https://briegercreative.com
Board Game Media friends – @solisgamestudio.bsky.social is getting ready to send out some copies of our summer release: a complete 2 player game in a booster pack! Super-powered duels in just 5 minutes. If you're interested, fill this out: forms.gle/eDoJ9L9nJc8g...
June 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Board Game Media friends – @solisgamestudio.bsky.social is getting ready to send out some copies of our summer release: a complete 2 player game in a booster pack! Super-powered duels in just 5 minutes. If you're interested, fill this out: forms.gle/eDoJ9L9nJc8g...
Please meet “Bong Sedlus”, our new road trip mascot, most known for his catchphrase “outside bad”
May 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Please meet “Bong Sedlus”, our new road trip mascot, most known for his catchphrase “outside bad”
High Tide walk midday. Getting a lot done on moving projects forward.
April 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
High Tide walk midday. Getting a lot done on moving projects forward.
Per the Designer, Adam Hutto. Sure glad indigenous peoples are there to "add some flavor to your colonization efforts" 🤮🤮🤮
April 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Per the Designer, Adam Hutto. Sure glad indigenous peoples are there to "add some flavor to your colonization efforts" 🤮🤮🤮
Days since a new boardgame publisher decides to publish the world's most asinine take on world history: 0.
Like "Colonize: the New World" is so ridiculous of a title that part of me wonders if it's intentional trolling effort.
Like "Colonize: the New World" is so ridiculous of a title that part of me wonders if it's intentional trolling effort.
April 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Days since a new boardgame publisher decides to publish the world's most asinine take on world history: 0.
Like "Colonize: the New World" is so ridiculous of a title that part of me wonders if it's intentional trolling effort.
Like "Colonize: the New World" is so ridiculous of a title that part of me wonders if it's intentional trolling effort.
How can anyone see mass deportations and foreign incarcerations without due process as anything but a fundamental threat to liberty in our nation? Auschwitz wasn't inside the borders of Germany. Making people stateless to facilitate denial of their rights is repugnant. #neveragain
April 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How can anyone see mass deportations and foreign incarcerations without due process as anything but a fundamental threat to liberty in our nation? Auschwitz wasn't inside the borders of Germany. Making people stateless to facilitate denial of their rights is repugnant. #neveragain
I spoke to several board game creators and retailers here in the Bay Area of California about the impact of tariffs. It's grim news for hobby games. www.solisgamestudio.com/blog/the-gro...
April 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I spoke to several board game creators and retailers here in the Bay Area of California about the impact of tariffs. It's grim news for hobby games. www.solisgamestudio.com/blog/the-gro...
The actual chats happening in @solisgamestudio.bsky.social right now
April 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The actual chats happening in @solisgamestudio.bsky.social right now
Me any time I need to do paperwork
April 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Me any time I need to do paperwork
Old and Busted: Space Marines
New Hotness: Sloth Marines
back Space Lion 2 on Backerkit: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
New Hotness: Sloth Marines
back Space Lion 2 on Backerkit: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
March 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Old and Busted: Space Marines
New Hotness: Sloth Marines
back Space Lion 2 on Backerkit: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
New Hotness: Sloth Marines
back Space Lion 2 on Backerkit: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Playtest round 3 kicking off for Weird Little Guys: a folio filled with oddballs for you to use in your campaigns. It's system neutral #TTRPG supplement focused on non-combat encounters. We cannot WAIT for people to play with these characters! Signup: briegercreative.com/weirdlittleg...
March 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Playtest round 3 kicking off for Weird Little Guys: a folio filled with oddballs for you to use in your campaigns. It's system neutral #TTRPG supplement focused on non-combat encounters. We cannot WAIT for people to play with these characters! Signup: briegercreative.com/weirdlittleg...
Tiny Laser Heist AP when?
March 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Tiny Laser Heist AP when?
Took video to ensure I am not going insane. Counted 6 so far. They must be big because I can see body parts beyond the lights even from far away. Dark from my cell cam.
February 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Took video to ensure I am not going insane. Counted 6 so far. They must be big because I can see body parts beyond the lights even from far away. Dark from my cell cam.
My recommended order:
- Section 0
- Section 8
- The Rhythm Section
- Section 31
- Special Section
- Section 0
- Section 8
- The Rhythm Section
- Section 31
- Special Section
January 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My recommended order:
- Section 0
- Section 8
- The Rhythm Section
- Section 31
- Special Section
- Section 0
- Section 8
- The Rhythm Section
- Section 31
- Special Section
Yes please. Can pair with some art from Jey Parks for CATastrophe: A Game of 9 Lives
January 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Yes please. Can pair with some art from Jey Parks for CATastrophe: A Game of 9 Lives
And my final read of 2024:
The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
Wonderful novel about an unlikely friendship between an overwrought bride and the only guest at the hotel who isn't there for her wedding. Has some darker themes than I was expecting, but I loved it.
The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
Wonderful novel about an unlikely friendship between an overwrought bride and the only guest at the hotel who isn't there for her wedding. Has some darker themes than I was expecting, but I loved it.
December 31, 2024 at 9:11 PM
And my final read of 2024:
The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
Wonderful novel about an unlikely friendship between an overwrought bride and the only guest at the hotel who isn't there for her wedding. Has some darker themes than I was expecting, but I loved it.
The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
Wonderful novel about an unlikely friendship between an overwrought bride and the only guest at the hotel who isn't there for her wedding. Has some darker themes than I was expecting, but I loved it.
Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson
Sanderson's escalated stakes mean a lack of scene-to-scene conflict for much of the book, which he substitutes with bad banter and quips. This is the worst of this series, but I think you already know if you're reading this or not.
Sanderson's escalated stakes mean a lack of scene-to-scene conflict for much of the book, which he substitutes with bad banter and quips. This is the worst of this series, but I think you already know if you're reading this or not.
December 31, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson
Sanderson's escalated stakes mean a lack of scene-to-scene conflict for much of the book, which he substitutes with bad banter and quips. This is the worst of this series, but I think you already know if you're reading this or not.
Sanderson's escalated stakes mean a lack of scene-to-scene conflict for much of the book, which he substitutes with bad banter and quips. This is the worst of this series, but I think you already know if you're reading this or not.
Empire of Silence, by Christopher Ruocchio
Derivative sci-fi drivel. I almost put it down mid-read. Early sections are Dune fan-fiction, and a later extended sequence feels like a beat-for-beat ripoff of Rothfuss's Tarbean sequence in Name of the Wind. One of the worst of the year.
Derivative sci-fi drivel. I almost put it down mid-read. Early sections are Dune fan-fiction, and a later extended sequence feels like a beat-for-beat ripoff of Rothfuss's Tarbean sequence in Name of the Wind. One of the worst of the year.
December 31, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Empire of Silence, by Christopher Ruocchio
Derivative sci-fi drivel. I almost put it down mid-read. Early sections are Dune fan-fiction, and a later extended sequence feels like a beat-for-beat ripoff of Rothfuss's Tarbean sequence in Name of the Wind. One of the worst of the year.
Derivative sci-fi drivel. I almost put it down mid-read. Early sections are Dune fan-fiction, and a later extended sequence feels like a beat-for-beat ripoff of Rothfuss's Tarbean sequence in Name of the Wind. One of the worst of the year.
Blood Over Bright Haven, by M.L. Wang
Followed up Sword of Kaigen with another read from Wang. This one was a little more predictable and felt less inspired, but still solid. I think it had some parallels to R.F. Kuang's Babel, which I enjoyed more on essentially every front.
Followed up Sword of Kaigen with another read from Wang. This one was a little more predictable and felt less inspired, but still solid. I think it had some parallels to R.F. Kuang's Babel, which I enjoyed more on essentially every front.
December 31, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Blood Over Bright Haven, by M.L. Wang
Followed up Sword of Kaigen with another read from Wang. This one was a little more predictable and felt less inspired, but still solid. I think it had some parallels to R.F. Kuang's Babel, which I enjoyed more on essentially every front.
Followed up Sword of Kaigen with another read from Wang. This one was a little more predictable and felt less inspired, but still solid. I think it had some parallels to R.F. Kuang's Babel, which I enjoyed more on essentially every front.
Sword of Kaigen, by M.L. Wang
A military fantasy that did not go where I expected. Thoroughly enjoyed and am looking forward to more in this world from M.L. Wang.
A military fantasy that did not go where I expected. Thoroughly enjoyed and am looking forward to more in this world from M.L. Wang.
December 31, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Sword of Kaigen, by M.L. Wang
A military fantasy that did not go where I expected. Thoroughly enjoyed and am looking forward to more in this world from M.L. Wang.
A military fantasy that did not go where I expected. Thoroughly enjoyed and am looking forward to more in this world from M.L. Wang.
Butcher & Blackbird, by Brynne Weaver
Two serial killers that only kill serial killers fall in love in this dark romance comedy. I found none of the horror horrifying (instead just juvenile gross outs a la man eating semen ice cream). And I found none of comedy funny. In the bottom of the year list
Two serial killers that only kill serial killers fall in love in this dark romance comedy. I found none of the horror horrifying (instead just juvenile gross outs a la man eating semen ice cream). And I found none of comedy funny. In the bottom of the year list
December 31, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Butcher & Blackbird, by Brynne Weaver
Two serial killers that only kill serial killers fall in love in this dark romance comedy. I found none of the horror horrifying (instead just juvenile gross outs a la man eating semen ice cream). And I found none of comedy funny. In the bottom of the year list
Two serial killers that only kill serial killers fall in love in this dark romance comedy. I found none of the horror horrifying (instead just juvenile gross outs a la man eating semen ice cream). And I found none of comedy funny. In the bottom of the year list
Saint of Steel series 2-4, by T. Kingfisher
None of these I loved quite as much as Paladin's Grace, they are all excellent romances and excellent fantasy books. Also love that there is an MM romance in the series – rare to find a romance series that switches. Core of this premise is just so strong.
None of these I loved quite as much as Paladin's Grace, they are all excellent romances and excellent fantasy books. Also love that there is an MM romance in the series – rare to find a romance series that switches. Core of this premise is just so strong.
December 31, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Saint of Steel series 2-4, by T. Kingfisher
None of these I loved quite as much as Paladin's Grace, they are all excellent romances and excellent fantasy books. Also love that there is an MM romance in the series – rare to find a romance series that switches. Core of this premise is just so strong.
None of these I loved quite as much as Paladin's Grace, they are all excellent romances and excellent fantasy books. Also love that there is an MM romance in the series – rare to find a romance series that switches. Core of this premise is just so strong.
Vigor Mortis, volumes 1-x by Natalie Maher
Not sure exactly how many volumes this ended up being as I started first 4 on Kindle and read rest of this (completed) webnovel on Royal Road. Sort of a cosmic horror progression fantasy. lots of weird tangents. not sure if I'd recommend.
Not sure exactly how many volumes this ended up being as I started first 4 on Kindle and read rest of this (completed) webnovel on Royal Road. Sort of a cosmic horror progression fantasy. lots of weird tangents. not sure if I'd recommend.
December 31, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Vigor Mortis, volumes 1-x by Natalie Maher
Not sure exactly how many volumes this ended up being as I started first 4 on Kindle and read rest of this (completed) webnovel on Royal Road. Sort of a cosmic horror progression fantasy. lots of weird tangents. not sure if I'd recommend.
Not sure exactly how many volumes this ended up being as I started first 4 on Kindle and read rest of this (completed) webnovel on Royal Road. Sort of a cosmic horror progression fantasy. lots of weird tangents. not sure if I'd recommend.
Little Fuzzy, by H. Beam Piper
This 1962 sci-fi classic about the discovery of a new sapient species and the ensuing legal battle over them is delightful. It's being re-written right now but I see little reason why it needs to be. Recommend!
This 1962 sci-fi classic about the discovery of a new sapient species and the ensuing legal battle over them is delightful. It's being re-written right now but I see little reason why it needs to be. Recommend!
December 31, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Little Fuzzy, by H. Beam Piper
This 1962 sci-fi classic about the discovery of a new sapient species and the ensuing legal battle over them is delightful. It's being re-written right now but I see little reason why it needs to be. Recommend!
This 1962 sci-fi classic about the discovery of a new sapient species and the ensuing legal battle over them is delightful. It's being re-written right now but I see little reason why it needs to be. Recommend!
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker
Sort of a weird dichotomy of a tale of competence porn of the siege engineer but then his unbelievable plot armor when he goes to engage with the enemy commander. A fun read but not burning to read any others in series.
Sort of a weird dichotomy of a tale of competence porn of the siege engineer but then his unbelievable plot armor when he goes to engage with the enemy commander. A fun read but not burning to read any others in series.
December 31, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker
Sort of a weird dichotomy of a tale of competence porn of the siege engineer but then his unbelievable plot armor when he goes to engage with the enemy commander. A fun read but not burning to read any others in series.
Sort of a weird dichotomy of a tale of competence porn of the siege engineer but then his unbelievable plot armor when he goes to engage with the enemy commander. A fun read but not burning to read any others in series.