Posts by: Ginger Stampley
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 [...]
One of the hardest things about managing a large PBEM is timing issues. If all the PCs interact only with NPCs, the burden is on the GM alone. She can manage by sleight of hand. If you’re running an open-list game and encouraging the PCs to interact, it’s a problem you’ll deal with sooner rather [...]
Today is a day of links.
1. Many of our readers will already have seen it, but for those who haven’t, Emily Dresner is writing a conversion of Nephilim to Dresden Files FATE on her blog. I’m not up on either system, but this kind of system conversion fascinates me because system can [...]
In case anyone hasn’t seen it: Emily Dresner asks women who game to stand up and be counted. Worth a few minutes to read and consider, even if you’re not a woman.
This post has been updated on July 23 and again on July 25. Scroll to the end for updates.
So there’s a Kickstarter out there for an explicitly feminist-oriented game: Heartbreak and Heroines. One of the author’s stated goals is to develop games that specifically include some groups generally underserved by tabletop roleplaying [...]
Hi, I’m Ginger and I used to write around here a lot. Jim was nice enough to invite me back even though I gafiated from 20×20 and from a lot of ftf gaming a few years ago.
One thing I didn’t gafiate from was House of Cards, an Amber PBEM my husband and I have [...]
This Shadowrun video promo from 1990 will bring back the memories for a lot of folks (via Metafilter).
For those who haven’t heard about it by other means, I’d like to point you at the Treasure Tables Q&A Forum for GMs. Martin has set up the forum as a one-month experiment to see how it goes. It’s more…
Those of you looking for anecdotal data about geeks, gamers, and ex-gamers might do worse than to read this Monkeyfilter thread soliciting old gamer war stories. I’m the clueless geek girl who didn’t realize she’d been asked out on a…
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