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 dice you roll at one time, there are a lot…[...]
Out of Character
A couple of days ago I wrote about and got some very interesting comments about how this is relevant to games. On the Story Games forum they talk about Improv…[...]
Advice Goddess
The Advice Goddess chimes in on a victim mentality. I'm only linking this because I really enjoy the column. Hope you do too.[...]
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 different games: scope. If you are playing refugees with only…[...]
Heroic imaginations
This is probably more suitable for infurious because it's riffing off Guy Kawasaki. Nurturing a heroic imagination takes five actions: Maintain constant vigilance for situations that require heroic action. Learn…[...]
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 came from jumpspace!. Some of the ideas are very good…[...]
Action is character
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Action is character.†A few years ago a friend of mine came up with the theory that we often play our polar opposites in games. The…[...]
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 use as a player aid for a while. It really…[...]
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 to have to buy it because ... Alexandria2000 writes: Or…[...]
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 Paramedic, Robert. Nothing could be done about Skycrane's smouldering flesh…[...]
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 by the heat inside his colossal Hulk costume -- on…[...]
Systems
A posting on RPGnet asks us to describe our homebrew systems. I ended up describing mine thusly. Maths-easy 2d6 comedy with either a manga/anime/mecha or zombie holocaust backdrop Qualitative success…[...]
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 during my forays to Paris. Nightfall had the advantage of…[...]
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, but what I could do for TTN in terms of…[...]
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 the conference room. Jack introduced a new staffmember, Yellowfist, a…[...]
Insulting the conservatives
Morfedel writes: "I think its because my conservatives watch Fox news because they (and I) feel that many other news media are liberally slanted. And of course, when you do…[...]
Unborn Ghosts
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people…[...]
Live for the moment
Last Monday, a friend of mine found out they had cancer after a couple of months of complaining about an upset stomach. Five days later, she found out it was…[...]
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, most likely New York. All operatives in the East Coast…[...]