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
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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
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
JonCon is kinda quirky in some ways — scheduling is still a bit of a muddle to me and I often get the impression that I’m missing a bunch of background history — but I’m starting to get the hang … Continue reading
Sunday’s game was D&D (Iron Heroes, specifically) in which we were high-level characters fighting our way to save the kingdom. The game basically just consisted of two huge combats: the first again some fire giants, the second against some snake … Continue reading
This was a FATE game, run by John. As per the Kerberos Club setting, we were all strange heroes of a semi-mythic Victorian age. And because we were playing a very light form of FATE (same as Bob’s Friday game), … Continue reading
My Saturday morning game was GURPS Zombies: Fantasy Punk. The setting is early medieval Europe (I wasn’t clear if it was 11th or 12th century CE) with fantasy trappings: elves are largely from the Black Forest, etc. We were a … Continue reading