Conscientious Gamers
When given a tool to solve a problem, it makes good sense to learn how to use it properly. One way to learn is to ask questions – including whether that tool is the right one for the job. Recently, Monte Cook Games released a free PDF and that normally innocent act has sparked off … Continue reading
#RPGaDay2019 Day 30: Connection
#RPGaDay is drawing to a close and I think it is very fitting for it to do so on this next-to-last day with a prompt like connection. The event as a whole serves as a connection between gamers, between new gamers and experienced ones, between non-gamers and gamers old and new, and between a gamer … Continue reading
#RPGaDay2019 Day 25: Calamity
Hot on the heels of triumph comes calamity for today’s #RPGaDay prompt, much like real life. Whether part of a chain of events or merely coincidence suggesting causation to the perceptions of those involved, calamity, disaster, and tragedy have a way of being in the neighborhood after we hit a high point. The wheel goes … Continue reading
#RPGaDay2019 Day 24: Triumph
Anyone who plays FFG Star Wars or Genesys will likely have an easy time finding a story of Triumph (or its opposite), but I suspect there are fondly remembered tales of epic success and tragic failure in pretty much every gaming group that has played for any significant amount of time. It’s in the nature … Continue reading
#RPGaDay2019 Day 20: Noble
If there ever were an exemplary spectrum of meaning change for a word then perhaps the prompt for today in #RPGaDay could qualify. The prompt today is ‘Noble’. In life or seems to me that what is Noble is defined in retrospect by those affected by ‘noble’ actions. Of course, that doesn’t stop those who … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 