Hollow, World!

"Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it." 

I wondered if it would be an overly derivative and sentimental move to start my first ever post here with a line from a fantasy trilogy I had just finished reading. Would this be too cringe? Would I live to regret making a dated reference for posterity? Am I  conceited to even having considered a future readership?  I quickly realised this was the sort of diffidence and navel-gazing that had kept me from starting my Youtube Channel and this blog sooner rather than later. So to take on a new tact...

Hello there reader, thanks for reading The Spectral Hollow. I am Russ, a full- grown adult in Singapore,  donning the mask of Owl Ghoul Games, and belabouring the ghost/bird metaphor by calling this blog a refuge and perch to discuss my thoughts on tabletop roleplaying games, boardgames, and everything in between!

Side Note: Owls don't live in eyries, no matter how much I love the homophonic implications of the word. Google tells me they don't even live in nests. School was a lie...

I hope that one day when I look back on this site, it would be cached to the brim with long-form reviews, TTRPG book read-alongs, post-game reports, essays on game design and ludology, and other half-formed, poorly cobbled musings on a hobby that has sustained my soul for a good part of my life. I must confess an embarrassing level of love for boardgames and TTRPGs, and all the friends and memories I've forged while playing them, and I hope eventually some of the writing here will inspire at least one person to pick up that game they've been meaning to play, or to dare to dream about designing that next great game they have in their heads. 

Where others saw a broken maw, the owl ghoul made the tree hollow its home.