Category: Musing

Lots of talk in the last couple days about what constitutes a “finished” game. (My threads on teaching your game

In an email, Jason Morningstar wrote: Hey Doyce! Your comment: “I’m a professional editor for technical publications and training delivery

It’s the people. The long and the short of it is that I like the people I meet through gaming.

So here’s a thought, grown from an offhand comment in a podcast last week. If you’re going to run a

Specifically, organizing each book, internally. I’ve done this a lot in the past, simply because the games I was running

“Crazy Moon Language Forgite Babble Theories”

Capcom Entertainment, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, have been given a license to produce a digitally

In this post, I wrote: I don’t think I have too many ‘headspace’ or ‘immersive’ characters to begin with. Of

But I don’t care: it’s a really interesting question. 1) Name a roleplaying game character you can think like, outside

Linear vs. Gestalt vs. Emergent Play Very interesting post from Brand. One of the reason I really like the “Gestalt”

Okay, I haven’t done a lot (read: any) gaming of pretty much any kind in the last few weeks, due

What gets me thinking: 300 movie trailer. What I’m thinking: AGON: Competitive Roleplaying in Ancient Greece Inspiring: Agon: Index of

With the holidays just winding down, there hasn’t been much gaming going on around the Casa, but I’ll mention what

Geek Omerta: talk about gaming like it’s a normal pass time like golfing or quilting? Perish the thought! Gush effusively

Setting Design Jumpstart, from Tony L-B, who take Aria: Worlds and does it in a much more useable format. I’m

Story Games for Everybody – Secret Santa! So cool.

I haven’t muttered vulgarities at my computer this much since I had to replace the hard drive last year.

Eden Studios ends production of Buffy/Angel RPGs For a number of months now, Eden Studios has been negotiating with Fox

The Tigger Syndrome in Gaming Seems familiar, a bit.

Shadows Over Camelot. Just a note to myself. Nothing to see here.

I made the mistake of drinking the visual koolaid that is Studio 60 last night, back to back with two

GNS my session Ron and a Rifts player talk about the Big Model and GNS. I dunno if the end

I direct your attention to the “Random Chat” link on the right sidebar. Just playing around, but it might be

Okay, I’m just brainstorming here, and I more than welcome input and thoughts. I got Dogs a couple years back

Story Games for Everybody – Go with what you know. My comments therein: … it’s a different kind of strength

I first read the phrase in Nobilis, but this quote from Mike Holmes breaks it down the best for me:

Most folks have been mentioning this for a year, but I’m just getting caught up: Five Geek Social Fallacies Geek

Every time I give up on Capes and say “You know what? I just don’t know if it’s something I’ll