I, for one, welcome our human-faced fish overlords…
A Fathead (genus Psychrolutes) trawled during the NORFANZ expedition at a depth between 1013 m and 1340 m, on the Norfolk Ridge, north-west of New Zealand, June 2003 (AMS I.42771-001).…[...]
Villains, Aren’t We All: Evil and the Gaming World, Part 3
It's one thing to go head-to-head with an Evil being. And still another to play an Evil character. But what happens when you're minding your own damn business and someone…[...]
Villains, Aren’t We All: Evil and the Gaming World, Part 2
Now that we've had a bit of introductory discussion about Evil, let's move into the most intimate placement of Evil in a game: within the Character. An interesting comment was…[...]
Film Review: The Illusionist
I really enjoyed this movie. It showed all of the overt magic and illusion which we would associate with stage magery albeit with the benefit of camera tricks to make…[...]
Villains, Aren’t We All: Evil and the Gaming World, Part 1
Comments really are the sweet spot on a blog, aren't they? I get such great ideas from someone bouncing off a post I've written and before you know it, you…[...]
I need a concept artist
I hate the fact that I'm crap at drawing. I can describe stuff but I'm finding more and more that I want to find a concept artist. I want to…[...]
This guy ain’t rolling his own dice in my game….
"Ladies and gentlemen, some dice stacking moves" I don't want this to be a link blog but....go watch...it's a flash video...[...]
Story Games. Just Bloody Great.
Good gaming blogs are hard to find. I'm building some of the better ones into my blogroll there but one of the best I've found is Story Games. I love…[...]
“Immersion”
I like a lot of the roleplaying blogs that are out there. They're straight-talking affairs and whether you agree or disagree with th definition of "swine" or whether you agree…[...]
Work?
Ideas At the moment we're not taking unsolicited ideas. We've moved all of the current ideas to the wiki which is, I'm sure you'll agree, a much better place for…[...]
Zombi Review
Jeff Rients writes about 5 old games he feels were overlooked. While I can agree with the ancient (James Bond, Lords of Creation) and the venerable (SpaceMaster) and perhaps even…[...]
What makes a popular game?
This thread on Story Games reports an interesting statistic. Dogs in the Vineyard has sold between a thousand and two thousand copies. The sales figures for DnD aren't ten times…[...]
Pickup Games
We're not talking about games which are designed to get the GM a date with the hot new girl in the gaming club (as mabmorrigan will likely relate happily later)…[...]
Roleplaying As Education
I have a list that is rapidly growing of things to post here, but for some reason this is on my mind just now, so... When I was growing up,…[...]
Out-Of-Character… For Me, I Mean.
The most difficult character I ever had to play was one drawn from a stack of manila folders in a gameroom in Astoria, Oregon. It was a one-nighter session --…[...]
First Impressions
Congratulations -- you've managed to rustle up a handful of players, maybe even titillated them with a hint of what's in store for them. You've slogged through the char-gen process…[...]
Trust.
This isn't about Roleplaying, Sci-Fi or Gaming in general. I'm angry. This is regard to a complaint raised against the North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust regarding…[...]
TTN: Zombi
Tonight at TableTopNorth, I decided to eschew my plans of running 2300AD because, simply, the setup is massive and I don't know my players very well. They seemed to want…[...]
Origins of The 23rd Letter
Syndicate... As mentioned earlier, it started out as a psionics ruleset for a sci-fi corporate espionage game called Syndicate which was masterminded by John. Syndicate was never published and indeed…[...]
Roleplayers beware…
LONDON (Reuters) - Police on Thursday charged a woman on terrorism-related offences for possession of a computer hard drive loaded with operating manuals for guns, poisons, mines and munitions. To…[...]