Category: Musing

Hanyu Pinyin, Zhuyin, Wade-Giles, MPS-2, Yale, and Tongyong Pinyin Cross-Reference Table. Cool.

gliriform – (adj) – Resembling a rodent. Just… makes me think. [evil grin] From the Grandiloquent Dictionary.

We’re doing these already, but I wanted to get them down in writing so that it’s clear to everyone. Dissipate

Forgotten New York, a study of the city-that-was. Tons of fun stuff for the right campaign. Related: Dark Passage is

What I’m running: Star Wars “Prince of Alderaan” campaign. DnD campaign Oriental Adventures campaign Pulp Adventures What I’m playing: Cry

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 14: Cross-Gender Play What do you think about cross-gender characters (i.e., men playing female

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 13: Character Backgrounds How do you like to build character backgrounds? Do you think

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 12: Mood Maintenance How do you keep the mood? And once lost, how do

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 11: Character Recognition Have you ever seen or met someone — in person, on

From Turn of a Friendly Die: What’s the most fun you ever had creating something in a game that changed

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to what I want in a game system; what works for me and

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 9: Significant Others Have you ever gotten a significant other into gaming? Those of

WISH 8: Maxims, Redux Pick three gaming maxims that other people wrote about and discuss how you think they have

WISH 7: Maxims List three or more maxims/proverbs/bits of conventional wisdom/etc. that you’ve learned in your gaming career, and explain

WISH 6: Secrets Sometimes the plot of a game requires a GM to keep secrets. Is it better for the

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 5: Communication Gaming requires the GM and players to communicate a large amount of

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 4: Systems Describe three systems you have gamed under: one you thought was good,

In an effort to reduce the boring “anvil chorus” of a typical DnD combat, I added a house rule on

Yeah, horrible pun, but a good article and introduction to Go.

Actually, how about this: You have $100 to spend on RPG’s… for your entire life. What do you buy? Assume

From Turn of a Friendly Die: Discuss three setting ideas or ideas for elements of settings that you got from

Again, from Turn of a Friendly Die (recently added to the linkbar). Describe two romantic relationships involving a PC you’ve

Wendi was there first, and Rey showed me how the damn things worked, but I really feel like, within the

Turn of a Friendly Die has an interesting little query: Describe three NPCs (not major villains) that you really liked

I don’t mind how many exp I give out in the DnD game, because I won’t miss this game when

These guys want me to do some work with them, prompted by Hocus Pocus, Mumbo Jumbo (which I wrote for