You probably have heard the news about #dndnext by now — the impending Fifth Edition of Dungeons and Dragons.
Of course, there are all sorts of rumors flying around, but probably the most interesting thing that’s come out of the media hubbub is this bit from Monte Cook:
…imagine a game where one [...]
Also angry, anxious, ashamed, lonely and other tonalities and harmonics of the negative aspects of Panksepp’s primal circuits. If I try to hear the very beginnings of that song of woe and bother, it probably starts some time around second grade, as just a quiet noodling melody like the [...]
I heard somewhere — I forget exactly where, so I am sure this account is somewhat mangled — that once someone sold an online PDF entitled How to Start Your Own Tabletop Games Business. It was a lavishly pure-white single-page document that said, in large, friendly letters: DON’T.
It’s Speak Out With Your Geek Out week! I have some thoughts.
First, awesome! All for it. Something close to ten years ago now, I read a really good piece about presenting your roleplaying hobby to non-gamers without fear, guilt or shame and the various socially dysfunctional behaviors that go with those emotions. That [...]
This post is excerpted from an email we recently sent to the out-of-character list for our play-by-email game. Credit where credit is due: I wrote most of it, but my spouse and co-GM wrote the rest and revised my writing. We developed the system for when and how to talk to people about posting as [...]
Another “three things make a post” post.
Levi Kornelson has a great public post on Google+ about how to get better gaming. A lot of this is common-sense advice (share your toys and treat people nice) but it’s always worth reading and considering it again.
Gamera Spinning asks what tabletop games [...]
Doyce Testerman, who I know from the internetz and gamed with a few times when I lived in Colorado, posted awhile back a sweet story of finally getting his mom and family to play a roleplaying game with him:
Still, it’s always been a bit of a sticking point with me; a sour [...]
There isn’t an explicit gaming angle, but Alyssa Rosenberg’s “Feminist Media Criticism, George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire, And That Sady Doyle Piece” seems to have applications for all of us “who want the nerdosphere to be a more progressive place.” I know Rosenberg plays video games, but I’m still efforting [...]
The truth is that allergies and heat are still being very unkind to the rare Ballard Spotted Bruce, but I have something in hand I want to enthuse about anyway: The Book of Glorious Joy, written by Jamie Revell. I’ve had this in proof form for a while now, and am delighted that it’s finally [...]
I’m covering another book by Chris A. Field tonight, and there’s one more in the queue after this. (I was originally going to cover both here, but found I wanted to share enough of this one to justify splitting the post.) Fursona II: New Options for Anthropomorphic Heroes is 20 pages long and is $2.99 US [...]
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