Giving Powergamers What They Deserve…
Posted by Runeslinger on February 5, 2014 · 6 Comments
Chances are if you asked a room full of gamers to list some negative player types, powergamer, min/maxer, rules lawyer, and thespian would vie for first place… Then the powergamer would take out the min/maxer from a position of advantage in a flurry of massive dice rolls, and the rules lawyer would drown in the … Continue reading →
Category Running Games, The Blog, The Gamers · Tagged with balance in RPGs, power gamer, power gaming, powergamer, powergaming, roleplaying games
Getting an Earful
Posted by Runeslinger on November 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
One of the major problems of conversations is when they are composed of speakers who use the moments where the other person is talking to compose what they will say next instead of actually listening to what has been said. While this is a common, annoying, and somewhat insulting aspect of daily life, it is … Continue reading →
Category Playing in Games, Running Games, The Blog, The Gamers · Tagged with listening, Role-playing game
HEX Contest Winners
Posted by Runeslinger on November 1, 2013 · 2 Comments
They say that quality is more important than quantity, particularly if you are afflicted with too much or too few of something. Despite the large number of page reads for the Hollow Earth Expedition Character Creation Contest, there were few entrants. Fortunately for me, those few submissions were intriguing and serve as a fine demonstration … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Hollow Earth Expedition, The Blog, The Gamers, Ubiquity · Tagged with Games, Hollow Earth Expedition, roleplaying, Ubiquity
Choice of Voice~
Posted by Runeslinger on October 20, 2013 · 11 Comments
As discussion cycles through toward gaming techniques again in the YouTube RPG Brigade, it has brought a latent point about the narrative voices in gaming to the fore. This post brings together some ideas from a variety of earlier posts and videos and then tries to take some solid technical steps forward toward a framework … Continue reading →
Home…
Posted by Runeslinger on August 18, 2013 · 3 Comments
I have just returned from my first actual vacation since the summer of 2006… and that one was more like trading my day job for doing one of my hobbies full time. Perhaps it has been even longer since I have really taken time away from everything and just focused on relaxation and seeing the … Continue reading →








