If you build it, why will they come?
Why do your players play? Why do they make the types of characters that they make? Why do they so often follow the same patterns and have those formulaic characters speak with the same voice, again and again? If you don’t believe that they are, you are not looking hard enough, or you never left kill-by-numbers … Continue reading
Filtering the light
The games I play and have played are in every sense the filter through which I view gaming and gamers. To help make this blog make sense and give it a sense of place in the larger community of roleplayers, I guess it is important to take a look at those filters first. Like most … Continue reading
What to expect from Casting Shadows
Using either the pull-down menus at the top of the page, or the various means of tag and category search tools arrayed along the sides, readers can explore a still-growing collection of commentary and comments about roleplaying games and techniques for both players and adjudicators. The focus of these posts is strictly on face-to-face and … Continue reading



