Rites, Rituals & RPG’s
As you may well have guessed from my inclusion of astrology, Tarot, and totemic/polytheistic home-brew material in my discussion of role-playing games, I’m a practicing pagan. Today is one of those days that’s kind of a big deal: it’s simultaneously Midsummer and the First Day of Summer (yeah, explain that one to me), also known [...]
A Double-edged Sword: Making Your Greatest Strengths Your Greatest Weaknesses
For the typical D&D player, the game essentially boils down to “winning.” You slay the monsters, find the treasure, level up. A steady upward climb. Fun, to be sure, but I’d rather just play a board or video game if I wanted that. Tabletop allows for a little something more, that is to say, the [...]
Arbitrating Diceless Role-play
For about a week I was working on a Play by Post Houses of the Blooded game set in Rome called “Blood & Wine,” which I’ll either have to move to Email or scrap entirely since asking after the Open Game License and getting a response from John Wick that basically amounted to a “No.” [...]
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