Something that occurred to me just this year: having an encyclopedic knowledge of RPGs hasn’t actually made me happier. In fact it’s probably made me less happy participating in my...
Philosophy
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Tales of Xadia and the Limits of Canon
We played four sessions of Tales of Xadia over the past couple months. Tales is the first complete and self-contained game to come out of Cortex Prime, the third generation...
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Furniture Store Lore
Sometimes I find myself in the mood to peruse a lore*-heavy game rather than work my way through a book-book. Ugh, fiction/non-fiction, so much work! I want a short, easy...
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Minimum Viable Game: Not The End and Others
How little game can you get away with and still have an RPG session? And what will you learn when you play?
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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.