The Podcast- A friendly conversation about natural-feeling characters with SettingFirstRPG
- A Friendly Conversation on Character Social Inequality in RPGs
- A Frightfully Cheerful Conversation on Horror and Comedy
- On the idea of a "Better Game"
- On what might be in a name, and Listener Calls
- Biting the Bullet with Jason Hobbs [video]
- Biting Bullets with Jason Hobbs
- A Friendly and Impossible chat with RPG Sean~
- On Memory and RPGs, featuring Arcane Alienist
- Is Immersion Impossible? A Friendly, Abridged Discussion~
Whispers in Darkness
The Accidental “Lie” in RPGs
What if a friend of yours never found roleplaying games not because they didn’t like them, but because they had been misrepresented to them?
Lucifer’s Lexicon: On RPG Concepts and Terms~
No Ambrose Bierces were harmed in the making of this post.
The bones of this post actually date back to the launch of this blog in May of 2010 though the content is much older. I had a few conflicting ideas about the blog in those days as it was inspired by the loss of my friend Tom (a genius) and the sense of dismay it sparked to know that there would be no more talks about games, life, or onion soup with him, and to know that a person like that was gone from the world. Worse, all the conversations we had had about gaming were now only the version in my memory – and of the two of us, he liked and got along with people much better than I do.
On Mending the Rift in RPG Culture
I’ve been a roleplayer for 41 years to date. That’s a very long time to maintain a hobby as a primary focus of my leisure and sometimes my working time, right? Four decades is a very long time, especially for a hobby as time and resource consuming as this one can be. I think that speaks to its importance to me and its ability to fulfill me in ways that other hobbies have not been able to. To say, that if I had been introduced to the hobby in the way it is conceived of now, I would have drifted away from it very quickly, is telling. How many others have already left, or opted not try?
Call of Cthulhu Immersive Sandbox Campaign Recap and Reflection ~ 1
The campaign has grown from one investigation with a single investigator to five independent investigations (or branches) and nine investigators, so far…
RPG Conversations and Metaphor
The role of word, gesture, and tone in the exchange of information is the essential ingredient in any RPG – even the very limited ones in choose your own adventure books and computer-based versions. Take it away and the RPG can no more happen than a game of Crazy Eights can take place without cards.
Casting Shadows 