Top 5 reasons why D&D sucks
5. Roll-playing Game While not as bad as some systems (*cough* World of Darkness) in terms of the amount of...
Out of Character
A couple of days ago I wrote about and got some very interesting comments about how this is relevant to...
Advice Goddess
The Advice Goddess chimes in on a victim mentality. I’m only linking this because I really enjoy the column. Hope...
Status: Refugee – Perspective Selection
One thing that was bugging me about this game was that which we’ve discussed on a number of occasions about...
Heroic imaginations
This is probably more suitable for infurious because it’s riffing off Guy Kawasaki. Nurturing a heroic imagination takes five actions:...
Look out of genre for ideas.
This thread on TheRPGSite looks for some ideas about how to populate a story based on the theme “Traveller: it...
Action is character
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Action is character.†A few years ago a friend of mine came up with the theory...
r-Maps (and being ahead of the curve)
There’s a lot of talk of relationship maps. I’ve been playing with the idea of an r-map for gaming for...
More on sexism and racism in games.
More on New Horizons the game that is going to put racism and sexism into every pulp game. I’m going...
Episode Four – 27th October 2000, PM
Skycrane and Psiren arrived safely on the rooftop of WatchTower and were greeted by a concerned INDIGO and the team...
sometimes you have to wear your work clothes to the doctor
SXSW covers “Confessions of Superhero” which shows the strange and seedy world of superhero lookalikes… We see Joe McQueen demolished...
Systems
A posting on RPGnet asks us to describe our homebrew systems. I ended up describing mine thusly. Maths-easy 2d6 comedy...
A picture is worth a thousand words. Literally.
It’s always been a frustration to me that I can’t draw. Jared and I have debated this a few times...
Q-CON. What are we doing for it.
On Monday last I was accosted by a small ginger elf who enquired not what TTN could do for me,...
Episode Three – 27th October 2000
Things started off innoculously enough as Donna the receptionist watched the rank and file of WatchTower New York file into...
Insulting the conservatives
Morfedel writes: “I think its because my conservatives watch Fox news because they (and I) feel that many other news...
Unborn Ghosts
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because...
Live for the moment
Last Monday, a friend of mine found out they had cancer after a couple of months of complaining about an...
Watchtower: Just in over the wire
++++ADVANCE NOTIFICATION ++++ WATCHTOWER EYES ONLY++++ Five superhuman individuals have been contracted for operations unknown in East Coast North America,...
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