More than a week without a post! Apologies, I’m still recovering from Convergence, and trying to write up all the interesting conversations that happened there. More soon!
Yearly Archives: 2013
Watching a nifty video for the Roll20.net computer-moderated RPG system, I notice that the narrator uses “campaign” to refer to a single combat set-up: maps, counter placement, etc. For me, that’s not a campaign; it’s a scenario, or perhaps an … Continue reading
Convention season is truly here: Just finished writing up WisCon 37, but it’s already time to look forward to Convergence 2013. Convergence is the second-largest con in the Twin Cities, second only to Anime Detour. Convergence will probably pull in … Continue reading
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
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