Choices
I’ve had choicesSince the day that I was bornThere were voicesThat told me right from wrongIf I had listenedNo I wouldn’t be here todayLiving and dy...
Category: Philosophy and Design
Thoughts and ideas on general gaming philosophy and design.
D.I.Y. D&D
As I mentioned in my last post, our group has started to use a homebrew D&D that has four inspirations/motivations behind it: 1) a pretty simple system wher...
In GM We Trust
We had our fourth Quail Valley Campaign session last night and although it will be a bit before the campaign log gets posted, I did want to share something that...
Acting and Representation as Character Roleplaying
Johnn Four over at Roleplaying Tips has a discussion about what it means to roleplay a character. He has a distinction between acting and representation as role...
Plot Devices, Plot Opportunities, Published Adventures, and FRG
I admit that I use a lot of published adventures in my campaigns partly because I’m lazy, partly because some of them are pretty good but mostly because m...
The Three Laws of Emergent Story Motion
As part of character creation for a FRG campaign, I asked one of the players some clarifying questions about his character’s background because I had story idea...
What is a role-playing game?
Well that certainly is a pretentious title, eh? I don’t really mean for it to be pretentious and, in fact, I’m not all that interested in defining r...