Category: Musing

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Over on the excellent Story Games forum, I asked folks who’ve been playing The Shadow of Yesterday about how long

I’m going to rave a bit about game systems where you set Stakes for a conflict and how that can

Since I’ve got a one-shot game to GM tonight (the first I’ve GM’d with strangers in awhile), and I’m going

Changed this site’s name. Just like this one better.

There are three stacks of things on or near my desk at home. Each stack has a book, a movie,

Failure is Always An Option: Character Defeat is Player Victory Too The biggest benefit of failure being entertaining for players,

One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight, Back to back they

As noted here, played Kethos and Pummelcite enough over the weekend to get Keth up two levels to 29 and

Random Heroquest thought, prepping for the Firefly game tonight: Failure means conflict.

The thing with the Heroquest system is the Conflict Resolution vs. Task Resolution; it’s all about the former and unremarkable

You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to make up a really rough sketch background against which to

CoH: Messed around with a couple lower-level characters — notably Bear Claws (who I think still has (annoyingly) the hero-side

So I want to plan for other Face to Face gaming, besides wrapping up Spring Fountain. I know… I know…

Xian Quan — still very much interested. Need to look at the different ways we can run this, online. FACE

Another fun Firefly moment: I’m on a mailing list for the Risus RPG (which most of y’all had the opportunity

Hitherby Dragons: Bang There are twelve avatars, and the thirteenth which is Death. It is normal for the royal family

Added a CoH category to the Blog entry posts so as to break it out from the more generic ‘supers’

Non-Gloranthan Magic

Heroquest: Can you do EVERYTHING with an Extended Contest?

captious: (adj) disposed to find fault or raise objections. That is all.

Related to the “Who killed Freedom Girl Stateswoman” story: The Liberty Song: Battle for Axis Earth — a big-as-hell, all

Certain things that always seem to happen with me and multi-player online games: 1. I make a wise-cracking, relatively-fragile, power-throwing

Over here, here, Shawn wrote: How do you prep and run so many different games? I’m blown away by planning

Had to cancel the HQ game tonight due to schedule conflicts. Which, I gotta say, bums me out more than

I have, on two seperate occassions this week, been distracted from playing City of Heroes to the point where I