Roles, Rules, and Rolls
Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Star Wars, Dying Earth, and the Programmed Setting

›
This contains discussion of Star Wars VII, no major plot spoilers but some general criticism. (Also, it's five weeks in, so see the dam...
1 comment:
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Surprise Kills Obmi

›
Obmi   is dead. That supervillainous boss of the third level of the Castle of the Mad Archmage, uncatchable nemesis of Gary Gygax's play...
Thursday, 10 December 2015

Interesting Buffs Are Visible Buffs

›
I've had enough experience now with the spell lists of D&D and with creating my own distillation and derivative to notice something...
7 comments:
Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Running and Hacking the Lantern of Wyv

›
At London's one-day convention Dragonmeet last weekend I ran one of the One Page Dungeon Contest winners from this year, " The Lant...
2 comments:
Friday, 20 November 2015

Paraphrase Third-Party Conversations

›
It's always an awkward moment in any role-playing game when the game master has to represent two, or worse more, non-player characters t...
11 comments:
Friday, 6 November 2015

Easy Rule for Broken Arrows

›
Among the logistics of adventure gaming that I currently handwave is the depletion of arrows and other missile ammo. In practice it's to...
13 comments:
Tuesday, 3 November 2015

The Bigger, Badder Gelatinous Cube

›
Gelatinous cubes in D&D have a strong bid to be one of the top ten iconic monsters. They embody the silliness and peril of the dungeon, ...
2 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Roger G-S
Researcher in social science and appreciator of hexy wargames, role playing games, interactive fiction, board games, and CCGs. I've learned a lot doing design and rules editing work on the side for the Legend of the Five Rings CCG. But this blog is mostly about other things.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.