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
Yearly Archives: 2013
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
First part of WisCon 37 that was relevant here: a great panel called “Why Is Pleasure So Problematic?” I didn’t catch the whole thing, but what I saw of the panel dealt in a very thorough, interesting way with the … Continue reading
Yesterday was a one-shot game with most of the weekly group members. It was with a GM we don’t usually play with, and a system we don’t usually use, and a genre (horror) that we don’t usually play. The game … Continue reading
While I’m still recovering from WisCon (and that will take a few days), I should note this: ConTessa is an online gaming convention coming up in a few weeks. All the games and panels will be run by women, and … Continue reading
As usual, WisCon was entertaining, mind-expanding and generally wonderful. I have yet to fully recover. I will start posting reports soon.
I’m off to WisCon 37 in a couple days, so updates will again will rare until I get back early next week. I’m really looking forward to the con, and I’ll be on two panels that might be relevant here: … Continue reading
Judging by posts on RPG.net, a lot of the RPGs sold these days primarily get read, put on a shelf, occasionally referred to, read some more and never actually played. Unlike a lot of people, I don’t think this is … Continue reading
Ever found yourself wanting to approximate a hypotenuse quickly? Probably the most common situation where this happens, at least in my experience, is when you want to know the range between two combatants on a battle map when one is … Continue reading