Complexification
Not unexpectedly, I only made it to one panel yesterday, and only about 15 minutes of that. It was a...
Archive for Roleplaying
Genre levels
Some thoughts on plausibility and genre conventions.
Saving the future
Imagine you're an 18-year-old computer gamer in Chicago, and you're sitting around at home one evening when someone you don't...
Hitherby
Back in May, I posted some links to a few entries at Hitherby Dragons. I still haven't gone back to...
Persistence of memory
Today was, of course, the fourth anniversary of the September 11th attacks; I saw surprisingly little commentary about that...
Zeppelin backstory
Back when I was writing my zeppelin story, I said that I would talk about its origins at some point....
Fabulous encyclopedia quasi-RPG
The coolest thing I've encountered all week: A roleplaying game/collaborative-worldbuilding system called Lexicon, "in honor of its inspiration, Milorad Pavic's...
Hunters
Brief things first: you can obtain a couple of replica Buffy daggers at Battle Orders Ltd, should you be so...
RPGs
I've been thinking a lot about roleplaying lately, and had an interesting chat about gaming and GM and player styles...
Ninja, kobolds, and other games
Last night online people kept saying "All Hail King Torg!" So I Googled, and found that they were referring to...