Category: Game Design

Related to this post on Justin’s ongoing struggles to improve (and our ongoing struggles to help him), I felt I

Stumbled across an old article on Pyramid’s site entitled “How to keep Gaming after Adulthood”. The author makes some excellent

Population: One: Monday Mashup #6: Huck Finn Huck, the quintessential youth, and Jim, the quintessential outsider, float down a river

WISH 61: Characters for Other People Come up with a character concept for one to three other gamers you know.

Population: One: Monday Mashup #5: Fantastic Four I don’t believe I’ve ever read any Fantastic Four of any kind, so

Roll the Bones: Role Call 28: Unusual settings What’s the most unusual setting in which your game has been set,

Without prelude or explanation, my Spycraft character.

Population: One: Monday Mashup #4: Neuromancer. Let’s put this in a non-standard game system. How about the excellent Dreamwalker system/setting

Population: One: Monday Mashup #3: Narnia First off, I have to say that I LOVED the meme-author’s take on this

Population: One: Monday Mashup #2: Body Snatchers I say: Body Snatchers/Nobilis.

The concept of this little excercise from Population: One is this: take a concept from a common or popular show,

Roll the Bones: Role Call 27: Verboten! If you were somehow forbidden from playing with your favorite system, genre or

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 59: Games for Non-Gamers Name three games you might use to get someone who has never

Roll the Bones: Role Call: DIY: Can you summarize two campaign concepts you’d create for player with identical tastes to

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 57: System, Setting, Style, and Play Do you find that you play differently when you play

Randy and I were having a conversation last night about character ideas and starting power levels. I’m one of those

Roll the Bones: Role Call 25: The ideal group: “What qualities would your ideal group possess?”

So my biggest problem with the games I’m running right now are: 1. Most are too big (have too many

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 56: Friends and Associates Do your characters have friends and associates who play a regular role

Roll the Bones: Role Call 24 Have you ever felt like it was time to take a break, short or

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 51: New Genres What are three genres that you?ve had limited exposure to as a gamer

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 53: Schtick What are three examples of physical or verbal schtick that you?ve used to develop

Role Call 23 What’s your favorite character you’ve made up for a game that you never got to play? Hmm.

I’m combining two role call questions into one post. Role Call 19: In what pre-fab roleplaying setting have you had

Just seen it. No spoilers. I will, however, say that as much as the first Matrix could ‘map’ to the

WISH 46: Plot, Plot, Plot How do you define the word ?plot? in a roleplaying game? What is plot and

I’m at that stage in learning/absorbing a game where I eat/sleep/breathe the thing. Unrelated: This is real turning point —

Note, the following meandering bit uses examples from X2, so if you haven’t seen the movie yet (and I’d recommend

WISH 45: Accolades and Warm Fuzzies Who are some gamers you admire and appreciate? Name three (or as many as

WISH 37: Schedules and Circumstances How do you prioritize gaming in your life to make sure it happens on an