I recently attended BurningCon, a convention devoted to the games published by BWHQ in Queens, NY: The Burning Wheel, Burning Empires, Torchbearer, and Mouse Guard are the big ones. BWHQ...
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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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The Many Utilities of Rules
We spend a lot of time talking about how rules work in rpgs. So let's think a bit on why we use rules at all.
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Characters In Transformation
Ways to think about characterization as you cultivate a storytelling mindset for your RPGs. Part 2 of ?
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Good Faith and RPGs
Spent the past couple weeks poking at the idea of good faith in roleplaying. I have a couple other pieces I’m working on, more technical, but I wanted to start...