WisCon was again great. WisCon’s level of discussion is uniformly very high and much more clueful than at a lot of other cons. I don’t do much gaming there, but it entertains through mind-expansion. And this year’s WisCon had a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2013
WisCon isn’t a gaming-heavy con; it’s primarily about programming and conversations. Still, I managed to get in a bit of gaming, all of it on Sunday: Dominion. We played one nice session of this. As usual, this was a combination … Continue reading
Reminder: ConTessa is going on right now! As I mentioned before, I haven’t been able to take part due to Google’s “real names” policy, but it looks like the events are a lot of fun, and many have recorded livestreams. … Continue reading
Well hello there, Reddit! There’s some discussion of my “Worldbuilding Ain’t Bad” article going on there, and it’s cool to see people in agreement. A small correction: I’m a woman. Maybe not important to you, but it’s important to me. … Continue reading
This panel went quite well. In pre-discussion, we created a handout with tons of resources and information, and we also printed up a bunch of copies of the Feminist Gamer Bingo sheet. Yes, a panel with not just one but … Continue reading
Apologies for not posting in a few days. I’m trying to work through my backlog of WisCon posts. More soon! In the meantime, here is a zip file of four clouds I’ve taken photos of; all are pretty good candidates … Continue reading
At last year’s WisCon, there was a fairly interesting panel called Creating a Religion. It was nominally about how to create religions for conworlds. Mostly, though, it just kept coming back to polytheism vs. monotheism as the main axis of … Continue reading
I noticed a few days ago that many of the stats for the sample characters on the Blade & Crown website (see the Downloads section) were wrong. (What’s that truism about how sample characters are never achievable within the game … Continue reading
Iain (M.) Banks has passed away. I’m sad to see him go. His Culture novels are a great example of transhumanist SF, and they provide (through the Contact division, and especially its Special Circumstances group) a good example of what … Continue reading
Another good gaming-related panel (WisCon had a bunch of them this year), this one was concerned with how we “expand our understanding of ourselves and the world” through RPGs. The panelists had a good representation of different kinds of RPG … Continue reading