New Downloads
Some people were looking for them so I’ve put some downloads on the books page: Wildtalents fanzine 1 60K PDF...
Man vs…
The topic of conversation this morning in the car was the substance of plots. Traditionally, we have plots which are...
The State of the RPG Industry
An article on MSNBC writes about the woes in the RPG market: “Wizards does not reveal sales figures, but Pramas...
So you want to be a writer
I got this from the blog of reknowned comic artist PJ Holden So you want to be a writer? Or...
Q-CON XIV video
The official video for Q-CON XIV was posted today: It’s good to see it running as I did all the...
Crucible Design’s Games on Sale at Key20.
After what seems an age, the first roleplaying games I wrote are on sale again at Key20 SpaceNinjaCyberCrisis XDO The...
Top 10 Roleplaying Games of All Time
Just to confuse matters, these are in alphabetical order but to my mind they represent the absolute cream of the...
A hatred of self and the games that do it.
How many games put you in the role of playing Ordinary Joe? Not many. A recent thread on TheRPGSite talks...
Art:
northerain is the blog of the artist behind Bloodsong Media. I like his stuff which he describes as: My style...
Diddlysquat is dead
Mark notes that Diddlysquat is dead. I didn’t know much about it, to be honest but reading the testimony of...
Riffing off The 23rd Letter.
Ghost Whistler on RPG.net came up with a23rd Planet idea. He was riffing off the name of the game but...
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...
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...
Systems
A posting on RPGnet asks us to describe our homebrew systems. I ended up describing mine thusly. Maths-easy 2d6 comedy...
Zombie Links
This isn’t a link blog, but these are very fun. Zombie World News “ZombieWorldNews.com is , as far as we...
Do women look for more depth?
Inanna Jones writes a bit about this sexism thing here on the IrishGaming livejournal: So generalising remark: women look for...
Shakespeare at least had Viola.
Apparently, I’m exercising the power and privilege of my gender by criticising the idea that we should actually de-cliché a...
So I had to go ask some women….
The Bitter Guy calls this a really retarded response. Fair enough. It probably is retarded to point at something that’s...
More on sexism (plus registration and comments)
I’ve turned off registration for comments because it should be off. Bit of a mea culpa there. I am enjoying...
It’s about starting conversations with new people
I started a little storm in a teacup with my last post. Even got someone else linking to me. And...
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