Echo’s Children albums: listen free online!
I'm delighted to see that all four Echo's Children albums are now available on Bandcamp, which means that you can...
Archive for Roleplaying
Darths & Droids for Best Graphic Story
This is a recommendation to nominate the webcomic Darths & Droids for the Best Graphic Story Hugo award. I wrote...
Gender options for video game protagonist
First, a bit of background for those who don't know it: There's a popular series of science fiction video games...
Bioshock and other games
I bought a PlayStation 3 a week or two ago, primarily for its Blu-ray player capabilities but also to play...
The Correct Number
Started reading Pamela Dean's The Secret Country last night on the way to sleep. My comment so far: Having five...
Real-person roleplay
I recently saw Natalie Portman live (well, on a screen, but in realtime, from a nearby location). Which gave me...
Darths and Droids
Back in 2006, a guy named Shamus Young posted a couple of strips of a photonovel-style webcomic with the following...
RPGs and constraints
Via one of those tangents that happen when you start poking around on the web, I just spent a while...
Game conclusion
The last episode of my roleplaying game was this afternoon. I had an intermittently rough weekend, and was very late...
Game update and GMing musings
Third session of my roleplaying game (out of a planned total of four) was on Sunday. It didn't go as...
Making RPG characters believable
I just happened across something I wrote back in '99 in response to a friend who'd asked, "How [do I]...
Still here
A couple of people have remarked on my silence of late--I've posted only five journal entries in the past two...