Why telling is more important than showing at the table/screen.
Vibing and the Fine Art of Telling
Category: Indie Game Reading Club
Essays, actual play, theory talk, and general navel-gazing about story-focused roleplaying, aka “indie” games. And trindie. And OSR. If you’re small and scrappy, I want to talk about what you’re doing! If you’re fighting to grow, I want to talk about what you’re doing! Basically if it’s roleplaying (tabletop, freeform, larp, whatevs) and it’s not the monolith of D&D, it’s in my wheelhouse.
Time and Time Again
Time travel is super great and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise. In the past. And then they'll never even know they disagreed with me. Bunches of games in the genre reviewed!
What’s Hot In Indie Gaming (Dragonmeet 2021)
Richard Williams of Dragonmeet, a UK-based big gaming con, reached out to me for a submission to his "What's Hot In Indie RPGs" seminar. That con wrapped up last week, so here's what I submitted! Annotated with links where appropriate. The past year has been my necessary, inevitable, unwanted introduction to playing tabletop games online.… Continue reading What’s Hot In Indie Gaming (Dragonmeet 2021)
I Have Seen the Future and It Works: Running Classic Traveller on Roll20
RPG scholar, author and designer Bill White talks about how running games online isn't just a convenience, but an entirely new form of play.
A Deep Dive into Sig: City of Blades
We go super deep into Jason Pitre's FitD love letter to Planescape.