(Background on my motivations: I’ve been roleplaying with a few people who have expressed to me a sentiment along the lines of “I’m bad at roleplaying,” or “I can’t roleplay.”  Yet, they are interested in playing roleplaying games!

To me, this is amazingly foreign, because stepping into a role feels pretty natural to me.  But [...]

Doyce Testerman mentions that he’s hosting a wiki for RPG theory topics on his site. John Kim has done a bunch of heavy lifting, so it’s already well-populated. Ginger-Bob says, “Check it out!”

“Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit.” (“No place is so strongly fortified that money could not capture it.) – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) “Counteracting [intellectual property theft] is like trying to make water not wet; it just…

Although it is not tuned to the RPG industry, insofar as it does not provide estimates on printing costs for 8.5″ by 11″ books, John Savage’s printing cost estimator may well still be of interest to would-be self-publishers. (Hm. 1000…