Category: Musing

Okay, I can’t leave this alone yet, so… check it. Let’s say we want to chart coherently Narrativist games on

You know… all this searching for common language in terms of game-stuff made me realize something else. I might never

Over in the chocolate/peanut butter post, MT said: I keep thinking that there are challenges that were made by players

So… driving home after the Shab al-Hiri Roach game (which I still haven’t written about. :P), I had this simple

me: hi 🙂     sorry,     writing big comments. Kate: i saw some of ’em.     My eyes glazed over…     🙂 me: Yep.

Awhile back, I posted a question up to the story games site, esentially asking seriously, how many sessions have your

So… after playing the Shab all-Hiri Roach tonight (which was fun and a really good time for all) and discussing

Randy and I were talking last night, and I mentioned Capes — parenthetically commenting that it and games like it

Over here, one of the Jason’s poses the question “What is your ‘Thing’.” What he means is… well, he gives

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