Posts by: Jim Henley
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is a follow-up post to “Enhanced Interrogations,” below.
One of the most infuriating experiences in RPG play is when the GM decides to “teach the players a lesson.” (Sometimes the GM imagines he’s teaching the characters a lesson.) Most of us have suffered it from the player side; too many of us have [...]
Two posts on other blogs, one game-related, one not, collided right in front of me this evening.
One is by my friend Julian Sanchez, who blogs professionally about civil liberties, technology, and philosophy. I hesitated identifying him as “my friend Julian Sanchez,” because in Washington DC and environs, and in big-time blogging, the phrase [...]
Mister Jonathan Walton, who cares a lot about design, asks me to discuss the visual style of third-edition Nobilis. I’m poorly qualified to do this. As a dude from the last American geek generation BAM (Before Anime and Manga), the visual style of Nobilis 3e was never going to be in my wheelhouse even [...]
Tonight I sent off a draft of my Nobilis-themed Fiasco playset to a couple of volunteers. I feel productive and virtuous. There are a ton of little and big uncertainties I hope to resolve, the biggest being, Is this So Crazy It Just Might Work or merely spectacularly misconceived? I’ll find out!
Meanwhile, [...]
Cortex Plus!
Cam Banks tells us there will be a big, big license announcement at GenCon, in just a couple of days. Not Dragon Brigade. Bigger.
Happily, I have my sources. So I can confirm that the announcement is actually one of two popular media phenomena:
1. YouTube: The RPG.
Cast: You play [...]
Nobilis “Week” winds toward its close! Today we talk about changes from second to third edition to the setting elements that will tend to change the experience of play, mostly for the better. These changes often seem small in themselves, but they add up to a substantial “sweetening” of a background that sometimes seemed like [...]
I’m writing this post after discussion with Ginger and Amy, but the post itself is mine and so is the responsibility for it. The “group” aspect of it is limited to our decision that this will be the thread where we specifically acknowledge the rape accusation against Kynn Barlett/Caiomhe Ora Snow, whose Kickstarter for [...]
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