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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, [...]
Yes, I totally stole the title from political blogger Matthew Yglesias. Some stuff for the morning, that I found here and there.
Matt’s co-blogger, Alyssa Rosenberg, writes about the growing mainstream popularity of, yes, Settlers of Catan. Alyssa is a nerd in good standing – I particularly enjoy her Game of [...]
The Fiasco Companion is available for preorder. I know what I’ll be reading this weekend.
John Wick’s “The War” is a faux-documentary of a fantasy war, done Ken Burns style. (Via Paul Tevis.)
I wish to +1 GeekGirlCon.
Andrea Phillips writes about “Time and Transmedia.”
Bruce Baugh explains how [...]
Ironically, I wrote last night’s post after one of my occasional “standing sprees,” which happened while GMing Nobilis. The PCs paid their first visit to Lord Entropy, and I played a good half of the scene standing up. This was just a bit of physicality welling up from a bedrock of yakking. In this [...]
Jason Morningstar quoting Viola Spolin offers a hook to start talking about roleplaying ‘n’ improv. Since I’m really tired now (gaming night), I can only take the very first step along what could be and may well end up as a thousand miles of posts.
One confounding factor is that not only is (tabletop) [...]
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