Musing – Page 42 – Random Average

Burning Wheel (finally)

2010-10-21 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top One comment

I got a copy of The Burning Wheel… hmm. My first mention of it on the blog was early 2004,

Finding the fun in Star Wars again

2010-10-19 doycet Musing

Jeffs Gameblog: Episode IV: What we know, what we don’t know. Some good thinking on the original Star Wars movie.

“Is it a ‘supers or ‘comics’ game?”

2010-10-15 doycet Musing One comment

Gerald (@Linnaeus on Twitter) put together a really good post on the differences between the different games out there that

Wasting time playing DnD

2010-09-23 doycet Game Design, Musing, Table Top 3 comments

No, I’m not saying that playing DnD is a waste of my time, settle down. Breathe. I ran into a

Brain Damage

2010-09-02 doycet Musing, Scheduling, Table Top 2 comments

Randy’s running this low-powered supers-in-Gotham thing. Interesting background. Interesting atmosphere. Running it with Mutants and Masterminds, which is a 3.x

Diaspora Hacks, by way of Dresden Files

2010-06-25 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top One comment

After a series of scheduling problems, we finally got back to the Diaspora game last night for the first time

In a Wicked Amber

2010-05-23 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top 7 comments

I don’t listen very well, even to myself. Short version of that post — following a session of In a

Sacrifice, Interesting Failure, and Diaspora Hacks

2010-05-13 doycet Game Design, Musing, Nobilis, Table Top 2 comments

I’ve been thinking (and talking) about sacrifice in games, and how that ends up playing out at the table. Originally,

“I bleed and take another action.”

2010-04-19 doycet Musing, Table Top 4 comments

There is a kind of magic in sacrifice. No, I don’t mean literal magical sacrifices with babies and goats and

Being Immortal in Fate (Diaspora)

2010-02-16 doycet Musing, Table Top 9 comments

Tim challenges me. First, he never lets me coast during our games: not as a GM, certainly, but neither as

Avatar: my thoughts, my opinions, my recommendation

2009-12-19 doycet Musing

… and my background: with the exception of Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, I’ve seen all of James Cameron’s movies at least three times. Yeah, even Titanic (though the third time was against my will). Understand that simple fact about me first: I’m pretty much the guy’s target audience. Kate and I went to see […]