I'm not sure if I'll get around to recounting the latest misadventure of the Muleteers, but there's a couple of posts to be had ...

Thankfully most examples of people saying "Childhood ... ruined" are in a jokey, double-entendre-finding, Captain Pugwash kind o...

When writers put on their brainy caps and work out the naturalistic consequences of a world built around the D&D game rules, one comm...

Here is one thing I have learned since turning my hand to active DMing as an adult: Rule number one is: fun ... and this applies to an...

Continuing the  account of diabolic temptation ... 4. Gluttony. The concept: Six imp chefs, cooks and butlers throw dangerous and t...

How do you represent spiritual temptation in an adventure game? Well, you could play Pendragon RPG , a system that explicitly rates each c...

When we play games that imagine conflict, violence and history, a reasonable question to ask is how  sensitive we need to be. I'm thinki...

In my last post, I promised to explain why William Hope Hodgson's works have such appeal in old-school gaming circles. And it's not ...

William Hope Hodgson was an early 20th century imaginative writer whose fictions often show up on old-school gamers' "Appendix N...

There's one last feature of moral disgust that might be worth exploring. It has to do with desire. An up-and-coming theory in moral ps...

In the last disgust post I went over some of our research showing that moral disgust mostly protects moral codes concerning the body. But I ...

One theme of my lab's research that is smashing into print in a esoteric, university-library-only journal near you this year (4 papers o...

The Universe Pantheon World lies suspended in a ring of planes and demi-planes representing the various combinations of alignments. It is th...

Here's part of one of the great comments from poster limpey, that had me rethinking my last post: > If it were ME (not my fantasy c...

Well, you could just not have alignment for player characters. Sure, you can have an affiliation that boils down to a cultural background an...

The other problem with alignment in AD&D is not so much about the structure of Good/Evil and Law/Chaos, as it is about the use of alignm...

The main problem with the two-axis alignment system is that it’s used for two things it isn’t great for: as a way to describe conflicts and ...