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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 [...]
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).
Greetings, all! I’m a semi-retired writer of RPGs, a 46-year-old who got disabled at 15 with what turns out to be porphyria and cascading complications, an erratic poster to LiveJournal and Facebook, the human for a fun smart big black cat, someone learning how to live with relatively recently diagnosed diabetes and [...]
Praise be to Nero’s Neptune, the Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting, “which side are you on?” Previously on the deep history of roleplaying games: When David Wesely created Braunstein, his seminal proto-roleplaying game, he was inspired, he said,…
It took a flood of comment spam notifications to remind me, but I used to write for this here blog about roleplaying games. And over at Old is the New New, my mostly-about-history blog, I’ve been blogging about the deep…
Jason Corley talks about one of the campaigns he is running.
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