While at GaspCon, I did actually succeed in running one of my three games. (As they say on Discworld, "One out of three ain't bad," right?). I wasn't terribly surprised to see that it was Bloody Forks of the Ohio.

( Full retelling )

Over the weekend, I attended Gaspcon, at the behest of Jason Godesky (who we played Polaris with some time ago. I had never done any gaming with GASP previously (though multiple groups of players I knew were involved). So I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Nonetheless I accepted responsibility for running three games at the con and ( Read more... )

This weekend I played five different roleplaying games. The settings of these were:

-Pittsburgh 1,000 years into its mythical past
-Pittsburgh, 250 years ago
-Pittsburgh, 400 years after the apocalypse
-A national forest just outside Pittsburgh, as seen from a mouse's perspective
-the Pittsburgh you only see in nightmares.

Notice a theme there?

Before you go ranting about the 21st century's lack of flying cars again, keep in mind these basic facts:

There's a serious proposal to turn Houston into a domed city

Robot maids clean people's houses

Children's toys can read your thoughts and respond

Space tourism is becoming regular enough that the space hotel is already accepting ( Read more... )

That was a bit incoherent. Probably because I was thinking as I was typing. Let's see if we can make it any clearer ( Read more... )

I was recently lamenting the fact that, though my 2008 Game Chef entry won an award, I had never played it. (A group of Italians did, but that's a different matter.) The game as written required exactly six players to function, and social logistics are not my strong suit, so I never had the right number of people on hand ( Read more... )

I'm currently writing a roleplaying game for Nathan Paoletta's Two Games One Name RPG Design challenge. The idea of the challenge is that each participant is assigned a title for a game, that they have to design. But another participant was assigned the same title, and has to design a different game entirely. A set of optional binary ( Read more... )

As is by now becoming a tradition, I'm trying to make a game for the International Iron Game Chef competition. I've set up a separate blog for that purpose, so direct your RSS readers over to Blogspot if you want to follow my attempts. Or don't, if you're bored with the nitty gritty of designing a roleplaying game ( Read more... )

The recently posted freeform Dark Sun game got me thinking about the relationship between a roleplaying game and its source material ( Read more... )

If Intelligent Design advocates were really serious in their pseudo-scientific claims, they could deal with the attacks on their nonsense a little bit better. But since they are self-admittedly just trying to sneak religion into science, they miss some easy outs ( Read more... )