As I mentioned before, a lot of the panels I went to at WisCon this year didn’t have much to do with gaming. This one, however, did: Social Isolation and WisCon For many of us, WisCon can be a magical … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2014
WisCon is over. Post-con blues have set in. But I have many pleasant memories. It was a great con. Not a lot that’s relevant to this blog, but I’ll be writing about a few things in upcoming posts. For now, … Continue reading
Just about time to head off to WisCon. I’m looking forward to a weekend of passionate, buoyant geekery. Getting to run Blade & Crown tomorrow night will be an added bonus! I hope to see you there. Expect more early … Continue reading
In my multi-year Blade & Crown campaign, a weird thing happened a couple sessions ago. A player rolled some dice. They then decided to use a Trait. Adding the Trait caused their roll to go down! How did that happen? … Continue reading
Having had it recommended to me many times, I finally watched the movie Ofelas (Pathfinder) recently. It lives up to the reviews; what a good find! It’s set in northern Scandinavia, in the land of the Sami people (sometimes incorrectly … Continue reading
If you missed my Mountain Monastery Mystery at Con of the North, you’ll get another chance to play it this coming Memorial Day weekend (May 23-26) at WisCon! WisCon is a wonderful convention with amazingly deep conversations, but it hasn’t … Continue reading
I didn’t do a whole lot of gaming at Minicon 49. A hoped-for game of Star Traders didn’t pan out. But I played a bit of Zar; played a couple rounds of Moneyduck (our local variant of EPYC) as well … Continue reading
One of my favorite panels of the con, this was Saturday afternoon: Terra Incognita: The Role of Maps in SF&F Literature A discussion of maps used in speculative fiction, either as endpieces or as part of the story. What are … Continue reading
My standards for fantasy magic: it should, I believe, be mysterious, powerful and rare. This is my preference in all fantasy RPGs, especially Blade & Crown. As I was designing B&C, the powerful part wasn’t hard to work out. Magic … Continue reading
Again inspired by the Build a World events run by Ben Rosenbaum at WisCon, and encouraged by previous iterations of this activity, I did a session of this at Minicon 49. We were inspired by the con’s official theme (Pirates … Continue reading