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Games Master As A Practice
When the question ‘What is the best way to describe running a role-playing game?’ cycles around on social media, I answer that I view it as a practice. This response is often unique compared...
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Binging Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
I binged Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and it was a glorious experience.
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How Do You Role-Play?
Everyone approaches role-playing differently - so here is a way too consider what you actually focus on.
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The Storytelling Spectrum
The storytelling spectrum and big 'S' and little 's' storytelling in role-playing games.
A Star Wars Campaign
The idea for this post came when watching the first live stream from Star Wars Celebration which will still...
The Conversations The Thing
Learning from some relatively recent rpg reading I've learned the quality of my rpg experience is all about the...
Approaching Scum & Villainy
These days I like to choose games to run where the challenge is in the execution not in just...
The Acolyte and End Stage Star Wars
I never though I'd see Star Wars as creatively bankrupt as Rise of Skywalker and then along came The...
Dragons, College Sex and Violence
Fourth Wing, the best selling young adult novel of military college, dragon riders, action and romance.
25th Century Trek
The brutal honesty regarding Star Trek: Picard season three is I didn’t need it to exist. I enjoyed season...
The Last of Us
This week I finished watching HBO’s The Last of Us. I have little doubt that it’s going to be...
Exalted: Let’s Fabula Ultima-ise
Do you know the secret about the Fantasy Avengers idea? When I considered running something last time, it was the idea...
Exalted: One’s Fate. Forever And All Time
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: Traits And The Great Curse
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: A Discussion On Rules
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Defending Main Character Energy?
Every generation creates terms for things that are either old or new but viewed through the lens of how life works now. We’ve had many of them around...
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S8 – Revel’s End
Welcome to the eighth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
The Importance of a Meaningful Why
The importance of why in tabletop role-playing game stories for meaning, emotion and fateful conversations.
MCU’s Lack of Focus
I’m a big fan of Thor: Ragnarok, despite this I chose not to bother watching Love and Thunder at the cinema. There are numerous...
The Comfort Crisis
One of the five books I read over the seven days of my cruise was The Comfort Crisis. I wasn’t sure about it. I...
Choose Empathy
Whenever I get a break from my normal routine I find I get through a lot of books. On a recent break, I found...
Not My Wizard!
If there is one class in Dungeons & Dragons I continue to flirt with playing it is a Wizard. In all cases, when ‘I...
Back To Cruising
If you’re reading this within a week of release I’m currently on a cruise ship and hopefully enjoying the Norwegian Fjords. I say hopefully...
Twelve Things About Me
We played Blades in the Dark. Three days. None sessions. A whole campaign. It was fantastic.
S7 – The Black Cabin
Welcome to the seventh set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
Sayonara Critical Role
I sense a journey I’ve been on since the second half of 2015 is coming to an end. That journey is being someone who...
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