Posted inCthulhu In-Character
A Tale of the Golden Dawn
We've begun an investigation as minor members of the Golden Dawn as a break from our Delta Green game. We've now got two more sessions before Graham goes on holiday…
Posted inIn-Character Pendragon
Tiroconium – March 531
In the fair city of Cirencester, the Duke of Clarence hosts a tournament each year for newly-made knights, called Tiroconium. Two knights have stood out as being particularly noteworthy in…
Posted inCommentary GM
One Sentence True Stories.
A few months ago I posted on Six Word Stories here and here and on One-Sentence Settings here. Similar to PostSecret comes One Sentence Some of them are just....fantastic.
Posted inCommentary In-Character TTN
From superheroes to Knights errant.
Last night we decided to give The WatchTower a rest as we've lost Yellowfist for a couple of months due to his impending martial marital duties. Thus ensued a discussion…
Posted inGame Design Qabal Review
Pan’s Labyrinth
Watched it last night round with Aidan, Abi and some ice cream. It's a good movie - personally I don't think it's the same sort of emotional tour-de-force as perhaps…
Posted inIn-Character WatchTower
Episode Seven: 28th October 2000
"This is Kitty Thoreau for LCI News Dakota in a prefab cabin built by the newly inaugurated WatchTower New York. What are they doing in Dakota? Good question and something…
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I bought a White Wolf game this week
I was doing my six-monthly browse through the stacks at Replay in Bangor and as usual found myself not wanting to leave without parting with some cash. It wasn't due…
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Heroes
Heroes is a lot of fun, one of the two series that I can be bothered watching (the other is The Dresden Files). Of course, they just revealed both Eric…
Posted inArt Commentary Game Design
Art:
northerain is the blog of the artist behind Bloodsong Media. I like his stuff which he describes as: My style is more or less based on existing photographs. I use…
Posted inCommentary Conventions Industry
Diddlysquat is dead
Mark notes that Diddlysquat is dead. I didn't know much about it, to be honest but reading the testimony of specky I'm reminded of lots of the silliness that went…
Posted inGame Design LateGaming
Riffing off The 23rd Letter.
Ghost Whistler on RPG.net came up with a23rd Planet idea. He was riffing off the name of the game but it made me think tonight about: The 23rd Century Fast…
Posted inCommentary Game Design
Bit of a buzz on these days
I've been writing a lot more these last few days - ironically not much on the two tasks I have been given - but plenty on other stuff which I…
Posted inCommentary Review
Renaissance Magic
The Guardian has a book review on De viribus quantitatis (On the Powers of Numbers) penned by Luca Paciola, a man who was a personal friend of Leonardo da Vinci…
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
I'm in a bad mood today and Crowley suits my mood. What are you meant to do when you've tried to sort out issues in your own life and someone…
Posted inWatchTower
Episode Six – 28th October 2000
The team was immediately dispatched to intercept the intruder who seemed to be a humanoid waterspout, heading towards the land. Debate ended fruitlessly with the humanoid who called itself "Ocean"…
Posted inWatchTower
Episode Five – 28th October 2000
"Any other business?" was the last words of the meeting spoken before the polished teak of the conference table began to dribble onto the floor into a congealing mess. The…
Posted inCommentary Out-of-Character
Six Role-playing Annoyances
Here are some annoying habits that players can exhibit in your game. There are some suggestions as to how to deal with these problems, either by encouragement (as another player)…
Posted inCommentary Industry
Top 5 reasons why D&D sucks
5. Roll-playing Game While not as bad as some systems (*cough* World of Darkness) in terms of the amount of dice you roll at one time, there are a lot…
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Out of Character
A couple of days ago I wrote about and got some very interesting comments about how this is relevant to games. On the Story Games forum they talk about Improv…
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Advice Goddess
The Advice Goddess chimes in on a victim mentality. I'm only linking this because I really enjoy the column. Hope you do too.