Tim Bisaillon
@manajunkie.bsky.social
I’m a longtime tabletop role-playing gamer who loves creating and experiencing immersive stories with friends, from high-stakes D&D adventures to cinematic Feng Shui battles. Whether I’m playing or running games, I treasure the friendships!
Exploring New Worlds with the Saturday Crew manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/e...
Exploring New Worlds with the Saturday Crew
Every now and then, even the most immersive fantasy worlds need a breather. Our Saturday night Dungeons & Dragons crew has been deep in the Eldermoor Campaign for some time now—untangling ancie…
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June 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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What’s On My Gaming Plate This Week manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/w...
What’s On My Gaming Plate This Week
In memory of Rory This week didn’t go as planned. I had intended to run a one-shot, convention-style tabletop RPG tonight—something I’d prepped and was excited to share. But life had other plans. I…
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June 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Adding Rory to Future Campaigns: A Tribute Across Realms manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/a...
Adding Rory to Future Campaigns: A Tribute Across Realms
Today, I said goodbye to my dog, Rory. He was more than a pet—he was my shadow, my midnight companion, my steadfast friend. Cancer came fast and cruel, and though we did all we could, it was his ti…
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June 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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What’s on My Gaming Plate This Week? manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/w...
What’s on My Gaming Plate This Week?
As the week rolls on, I’ve found myself diving deep into pixels and parchment—splitting time between the vibrant chaos of Far Cry 4 and the evolving challenges of tabletop storytelling in Dungeons …
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May 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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What’s On My Gaming Plate This Week manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/w...
What’s On My Gaming Plate This Week
Last weekend was a whirlwind of dice, character sheets, and caffeinated storytelling—it was Cangames time, baby! It’s always a treat to be surrounded by fellow nerds and creatives, and this year’s …
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May 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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The Die of Disgust manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/t...
The Die of Disgust
Let me tell you about that time at a gaming convention a few years back —you know, the kind of con story that lives forever in the hallowed halls of “Nope” and gets whispered around tab…
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May 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Roll Initiative… After a Nap manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/r...
Roll Initiative… After a Nap
Once upon a time—say, about forty years ago—the idea of a nap room at a gaming convention would’ve made me snort out my Jolt Cola. Who’s got time to sleep when there are dungeons to crawl, kingdoms…
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May 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The One Where We Got Pulled Over for Being Nerds (Cangames 98-99 Edition) manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/t...
The One Where We Got Pulled Over for Being Nerds (Cangames 98-99 Edition)
It was the late 90s. Our wallets were empty, our character sheets were stained with coffee (and maybe beer as well), and our minds were still reeling from a full day of dice-rolling, monster-slayin…
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May 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Post-Cangames Musings from a 60-Year-Old Dice Slinger manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/p...
Post-Cangames Musings from a 60-Year-Old Dice Slinger
The dice are packed away, the name badge is tossed in the drawer, and the con energy has finally worn off—welcome to the post-Cangames crash. Every year it gets a little harder to bounce back. I’m …
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May 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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From Dinosaurs to NeoCity – My Weekend at Cangames manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/8...
From Dinosaurs to NeoCity – My Weekend at Cangames
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs The Roleplaying game by GDW Games. What a weekend! I just got back from Cangames, and I’m still riding the adrenaline high that only comes from a full-throttle gaming conv…
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May 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Fallout 4: Endgame Reflections – Burned It All Down and Walked Away manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/f...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Anticipation, Adventure, and Cangames 2025 manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a...
Anticipation, Adventure, and Cangames 2025
There’s a certain electricity that starts buzzing in your bones when a long-anticipated gaming weekend creeps closer on the calendar—and for me, that’s exactly what’s happening as Cangames approach…
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May 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The Titan’s Judgment Final Session of the Season manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/t...
The Titan’s Judgment Final Session of the Season
Last night’s game marked the epic season finale of our campaign arc—and wow, what a ride. The session, titled The Titan’s Judgment, was a high-stakes, high-emotion one-shot that wrapped up ongoing …
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May 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Why the John Wick Movies Are Basically a Feng Shui: Shadowfist RPG Campaign manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/w...
Why the John Wick Movies Are Basically a Feng Shui: Shadowfist RPG Campaign
Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate: the John Wick film franchise is a beautiful, balletic murder opera. It’s also—if you squint just right—the best cinematic example of what it feel…
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May 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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That First Time Behind the Screen: My First Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/t...
That First Time Behind the Screen: My First Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game
There are some moments you never forget. The first time you roll a natural 20. The first time your character dies a heroic (or hilariously foolish) death. And for me, one of the biggest was the fir…
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April 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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The Slow Burn of Espionage – A Top Secret Night to Remember manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/t...
The Slow Burn of Espionage – A Top Secret Night to Remember
Back in the glory days of the Strategy & Tactics Club—the afterschool sanctuary for gamers at our high school—we played everything we could get our hands on. From hex-and-counter classics to hi…
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April 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The Saturday Night Crew: Dice, Legends, and Lifelong Bonds manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/t...
The Saturday Night Crew: Dice, Legends, and Lifelong Bonds
There’s something timeless about a gaming table. The clatter of dice, the scratch of pencils on character sheets, the shared laughter (and groans) over critical hits and epic fumbles. For me, Satur…
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April 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The Night the Sky Broke: An Epic Tabletop Tale manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/19/t...
The Night the Sky Broke: An Epic Tabletop Tale
There are gaming nights when the dice feel hot, the table buzzes with energy, and a session burns itself into your memory like a constellation etched in myth. This was one of those nights. We gathe…
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April 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The Roll That Changed Everything: A Reflection on Friendship, Fate, and a Wedding manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/t...
The Roll That Changed Everything: A Reflection on Friendship, Fate, and a Wedding
Many moons ago—though not quite as long as the bards might claim—my friend Mark married the love of his life, Angelina. I had the honour of standing beside him that day, not just as his best man, b…
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April 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Blog Post: Operation Southfire – A One-Shot to Remember (Early '80s Edition) manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/b...
Blog Post: Operation Southfire – A One-Shot to Remember (Early ’80s Edition)
There are games you remember because they spanned months and told epic tales. And then there are the ones that stick with you because the energy at the table, the wildness of the moment, and the wa…
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April 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Back to the Wasteland: Revisiting Fallout 4 with the PS5 Upgrade manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/b...
Back to the Wasteland: Revisiting Fallout 4 with the PS5 Upgrade
Every so often, a game calls you back. Not with a loud siren song, but more like a familiar whisper—something about the crunch of gravel underfoot in the ruins of a forgotten world, the buzz of a s…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Guilty Pleasure Flicks That Shaped My Tabletop Games manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/12/g...
Guilty Pleasure Flicks That Shaped My Tabletop Games
We all have them—those strange, wonderful movies we adore even if they never made it to the Oscar stage. The kind of late-night cable gems or dusty VHS finds that linger in your mind long after the…
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April 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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A Quick Dive Into My Recent Reads manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/a...
A Quick Dive Into My Recent Reads
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been bouncing between genres, decades, and tones, and I’ve got three books to thank for it: Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard, This Perfect Day by Ira Levin, and The Stand …
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April 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Watching the Watchers manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/t...
Watching the Watchers
Lately, I’ve been falling down a bit of a rabbit hole on YouTube—reaction videos. You know the ones: someone sits down to watch a movie for the first time, and we get to see their genuine reactions…
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April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Before Mana and Mythic Rares manajunkie.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/b...
Before Mana and Mythic Rares
Long before Magic: The Gathering reshaped card tables into arcane battlefields, there was Nuclear War —a chaotic, satirical card game that taught us the true meaning of mutually assured destruction…
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April 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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