In yesterday’s Focus Journal I talked about the site redesign and importance, to me, of being genuine and mentioned in passing the idea of having mission and vision statements for this blog. I’m finally at a point where I feel I can get back to blogging regularly, and I have a good idea what that’s … Continue reading »
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[RPG] The Intervention: Worldbuilding
When my Monday group discussed what sort of game to run, we landed on superheroes because of the flexibility. Everyone can, in theory, run any sort of character they want. Bethany, who plays the Time Lord known as The Bachelor in our faltering Primetime Adventures Doctor Who game, expressed that she’d like the opportunity to … Continue reading »
[RPG] The Intervention: A Game Group Turning Point
Monday night was supposed to be a regularly scheduled gaming night, but it turned into a sort of intervention. Of late we’ve been getting together, horsing around, cracking jokes, having an all-around good time, but not getting much actual gaming done. Now, I’ve been through this before with other gaming groups, and in fact the … Continue reading »
[ROLPUNK] GM as Devil, XP as Soul
Say you’re playing in a game that doesn’t have a Hero/Action/Fate/Whatever-Point mechanic. The player characters get into some really, really serious trouble and need help. They’re going to die. Or maybe they just think they’re going to die, because you’re the gamemaster and you’ve built up a lot of suspense in their current situation. Are … Continue reading »
Of Kobolds, Press Releases, and Hot Coffee
I don’t do press releases, or product release “carnivals” any more, for a number of reasons. First, even though I still write a lot about roleplaying games, I don’t consider this to be an RPG site and I’m certainly not exclusively an RPG writer. Second, I have a certain ethical squeamishness about how some (not … Continue reading »
Pathfinder, D&D, and I
For some reason I don’t tend to talk about the Pathfinder games I’m in. Don’t ask me why, because I’m not sure. It’s not that they aren’t wonderful games, or that I’m not having boatloads of fun. They are; I am. It’s not because I don’t have an interesting character, with interesting personal plot hooks … Continue reading »
ROLPUNK: Respect Your Gamemaster
A friend if mine is an active roleplayer, but says he’ll probably never be a gamemaster again. It’s not that he didn’t enjoy doing it. He stopped because a number of his players kept expressing the sentiment that they were there mainly for the social activity, for the excuse to hang out with friends, and … Continue reading »
ROLPUNK: Reconnecting with Geek Roots
As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in a Starbucks a few doors down from where Wargames West used to be. It was a cool game store, Wargames West, with a huge selection of roleplaying games, board games, and the biggest selection of non-Games Workshop miniatures I’ve ever seen. I’m talking about a big store with … Continue reading »
Hacking Laser Ponies
Laser Ponies is a setting for the QAGS roleplaying system, inspired by 80s cartoons. It attempts to cater to both boys and girls by incorporating elements of rainbows and friendship with action and violence. Hey, they’re ponies that shoot lasers out of their eyes! The reason for this unusual ability is explained in the backstory, … Continue reading »
Regular Show Lampoons Roleplaying
I love Regular Show because it’s a true bastion of the weird. There have been several attempts in the past to do cartoons that have an “underground comic” feel, but this one actually pulls it off. Most of the topics feel like a labor of the creators’ love — there are tons of 80s jokes, … Continue reading »
