How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

So say I wanted to run a Traveller campaign. And say I wanted to do it with an irregular player base-- potentially a large one, and potentia...

I've been playing tons of Magic lately and I spent the weekend loading almost all of my collection into Deckbox. (There are a couple of ...

I've been doing surprisingly little gaming recently. There's the Buffy game and the GURPS game and little bits of craziness in betwe...

This was originally an e-mail to one of my players. In the GrimDark Future, There Is Only Racing You're a racing team in an over-t...

Joceyln the cabbage-growing peasant has had a VISION. The slitherous ST. SERPENTOR has come to her IN A DREAM and told her to GO FORTH! and...

Just to be clear, I'm talking about an emotional response. I don't have a problem with Jim Lee drawing sexy women.  He's good at...

I don't usually post about my personal life or work here and I plan to keep it that way, but I thought I'd just post a few of these ...

D&D, in all editions, has a lot of rules for combat. That's generally what the majority of the game's rules are for, even when i...

In the comments on Zak's latest post, bombasticus writes: Now that you mention it, though I almost want to run a really decadent Thir...

Foxboy is getting old World of Darkness books in the mail. He's got players lined up and he wants us all to be Tremere in a small town d...

I dig Vancian magic I think it makes sense, has a lot of flavor, and makes it pretty easy to handle magic. It also admits a lot of variation...

Didn't win NaNoWriMo, which I'm okay with. At about 35k and still working on it. We'll see where that goes. I'm trying to ge...

I'm doing NaNoWriMo again. That's one reason why I've been quiet lately. (Other reasons: Not gaming as much as I was, not runni...

So on Google Plus the other day, in a discussion of why I don't read comics and maybe other people don't too (short version: they...

At the behest of noisms. Stats are provided in the form of references to similar Pathfinder monsters, along with any modifications necessar...

The process of generating situations in the way that I described yesterday is much, much easier for me when the style of the game is a well...

On Friday I made mention of "figuring out my DMing style," in service to what was really another point entirely. What I was talki...

[[Other people have said stuff like this before, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately. Especially the bit at the beginning. Al...

These are the guys our GM won't let us play: The Boozer, who can control alcohol the way some heroes control water or fire, and creat...

After a long dry spell (there was a two-month period where I wasn't gaming at all), I've suddenly got more gaming than I know what t...