Let the beats fall where they may…
I have been struggling to write a certain post since I started this blog. This is a run at it, but probably won’t be it. Bits and pieces of the theme have crept out here and there in other posts, but simply what I want to write about is this: There is much more to … Continue reading
To Seek Out New Dice and New… Civilizations
With no small amount of wonderment at myself, I went on an extensive dice hunt this month for a game I am not at all likely to run. The game? Dungeon Crawl Classics. This post is not about the game though, it’s about the dice. Nostalgia and High Impact Dice It took me years to … Continue reading
Assessing Group Performance
Perception shapes reality, but sadly individual perception shapes only an individual’s reality to any great degree. I say sadly, not because I long for the chaos such a totally mutable world would bring with it, but because many of us remain trapped in glass rooms for 1 in the Hotel of the Real, thinking that our perception … Continue reading
The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Conversation
It would be foolish to contest that our hobby grew out of the war games community. How far, however, has it grown? A quick tour of the ever-growing spectrum of RPG blogs will suggest that what growth there has been is not without some serious backsliding into the hobby’s primordial ooze. When virtually every discussion … Continue reading
