Category: Musing

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

Arrowflight‘s magic system is… Well, it reminds me of something. I attempt to create a Wall of Earth spell from

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 67: Storytelling How do you tell stories in your games? Are there character stories, overarching stories,

Grey Ghost Press is going to use the Fatigue Rules I wrote up for Fudge (and Swift) a few years

Evil Animal Minion Generator. (via, I am given to understand, the hidden Djinn)

Lately, I’ve been pissing people off. No, I can’t point at anything specific for this statement, but I’m vaguely (disquietingly)

Monday Mashup #9: West Wing Bryant’s comment: I think the most interesting thing about West Wing is watching the relatively

Population: One: Monday Mashup #8: Beach Boys Without pushing in any particular direction, I?d say there?s potential for romantic scenarios,

Population: One: Monday Mashup #7: Shogun If I was going to boil Shogun down to a sentence of summation, I?d

WISH 65: That’s My Job Does what you do for a living have any impact on your gaming? Have you

I will not be GMing any games this weekend, including Friday night. As near as I can tell from my

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