Theater of the Mind: Parlay Issue – Bonus Content
Theater of the Mind Magazine and the Casting Shadows blog I have been contributing to a new gaming magazine called Theater of the Mind for the past few months. The magazine, available in PDF and Print-on-Demand from DriveThru, grew out of the underlying community supporting the YouTube RPG Brigade. In keeping with the nature of … Continue reading
Choice of Voice~
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
Games that don’t happen
Life has a lot of ways of nudging events so that games don’t happen. There are periods where we can confound life’s intent to spoil our fun and gratification, but that still leaves a lot of time where life wins. Living in Korea was once a source of gamelessness for me, but I learned how … Continue reading
Genre is Rule 0
Now available in audio form with commentary from 2020 Casting Shadows Podcast I watched a video clip yesterday evening which asked “Why?” in connection to the disparity in numbers between those who will choose to respond to an ad looking for D&D or Pathfinder players as compared to the number who will respond to ads … Continue reading
