Category: Musing

Donjon (site), Donjon (review), Donjon example characters — player-driven dungeon crawling — it seems as though this could be either

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 85: Character Inspirations What inspires you to create characters? Do you have partially-developed characters in mind

My Life with Master: a must-play as far as I’m concerned.

One of those fantasy games that (like HeroQuest) I plan to try out with my DnD group after they wrap

First off, there’s a good review of InSpectres, here. Now, a summary:

Next up, let’s take a look at a fantasy system: HeroQuest. First, a particularly good and useful review can be

So I’ve got a bunch of games laying around — stuff I want to run, to try out… whatever. I

Here’s an observation, neither novel nor groundbreaking. d20 in it’s current incarnation will never be a good system for non-dungeon

I’ve often said there’s practically no difference between the basic PC conflict setups for Amber and Vampire (whether that’s a

The Wednesday Weird is a writing exercise where each week a topic will be posted and participants will write about

Reading one of the ‘Actual Play’ entries on the Forge left me a bit… confused. Here’s an excerpt: We did

The 20′ By 20′ Room: Definitive Narrativism links to essays on the Forge (a rpg forum I won’t bother to

As I’ve mentioned before, I sometimes miss things that are going on with the players in my games. Back in

Game Wish asks: What do you think is the best cast size for the games you?ve played? What are the

Following in Ken Hite’s footsteps, my list of what I consider the ‘best’ RPGs, currently.

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 78: Two Characters, One Game Do you think allowing one player to play more than one

Timeline Tool. Online.

WISH 30: Is PBeM Roleplaying? Are PBeM (Play-by-email) games actually roleplaying? Why or why not? How does PBeM differ from

Monday Mashup #17: Psycho Hmm. I think I’d got with My Life with Master on this one, simply because I’ve

WISH 73: Player-Driven Shifts What’s the biggest PC-driven shift you’ve ever experienced in a campaign? If you were a player,

WISH 71: Unwritten NPCs For GMs : when you plan or play your NPCs, do you intentionally leave out some

WISH 72: Character Interruptus Talk about a few characters you had to stop playing before their stories felt finished. Where

Halloween tomorrow night — some folks are coming over and I think I’ll run a one-shot for something or other.

A one-year-old boy has been bitten 30 times by a group of more than a dozen other babies at a

Things go awry in discussing a one-shot JL supers game with Randy on the phone. [Warning, mention of sexual paraphenalia

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 69: Non-RPG Games for Gamers Recommend three non-RPG games for RPGers. Why do you recommend these

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 68: Multiple-GM Games Have you ever played in or GMed a game with more than one