Category: Musing

Some great thoughts from ***Dave on Game logs: why to keep them, why not to, how to encourage them (both

After feedback and lots of questions from some folks, I’ve updated and reposted the write-up for eighteen. I think it

With apologies to various good golfing movies, the sport itself, the hobby of roleplaying, and Ron Edwards, I present an

With the exception of one Nobilis session… two weekends ago (egads)… there really hasn’t been much gaming going on this

You know what’s intimidating? When the Ron Edwards PM’s you with “I’m utterly swamped, could you please address the questions

Neel Krishnaswami posts a Sorcerer One-Sheet to The 20′ By 20′ Room. Fully expect it to be brilliant, because it’s

With regards to running FATE (which I plan to use in the future for at least one if not two

Doc’s Blog … Confessions of a Game Addict: Game Dream 3: Is it Me or is it Memorex? Some people

This weekend, I had a chance to play-test a Firefly game session using a stripped-down version of Unknown Armies 2nd

[I promise the actual play from Friday night is on the way. I’ve got it about half-written, I swear.] I

One of the questions I’ve been trying to answer when I look over a new game is “What do I

Man, that was a fun martial arts movie… Anyway. Perverse Access Memory: WISH 99: Best Genre RPGs Pick three to

Lumpley, via the Forge I’ve got a theory. There’s Setting, System, Character, Situation and Color, right? I think that you

Okay. Once upon a time (about six months ago), I stumbled on some pretty good games via reviews on RPG.net

…and… Hmm. I think I’m going to go a bit longer, despite someone handing me (another) nice short definition for

“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.” — Dame Rose Macaulay Okay, so

Green Ronin has the publishing green-light to revise and release Warhammer FRPG (my favorite ‘blood and rust’ game of all

Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics Saying that shards of broken glass are razor sharp is an understatement. A shattered window

Population: One: Monday Mashup #37: Full Metal Jacket Oh, I could do something here with Sorcerer, tying everyone’s kickers into

Not just Batman, actually, in fact… every single character that can be referenced for this stereotype/archetype is also a Big

Roleplaying Theory, Hardcore: Seriously. How many times have you created a character who was far cooler in your head than

I wanna do Evangelion/Sorcerer.

A conversation on the Forge regarding how or when the idea of Player Authorship crept into your style of play.

So in sketching out the Shannon character for this post, I became aware of a really cool ‘dark-side/light-side’ thing going

Ron Edwards is working on a final, hard-copy version of Trollbabe, trying to get it done in time for GenCon.

There’s this thing in gaming that really doesn’t work: adding new optional things to a system that the players are

“Next campaign, I’m not going to give a bonus to hit for coming up with interesting descriptions in combat: I’m

There’s a game I’d like to write up in full that I never will. Two reasons: One is simply that