Thinking about doing character generation for a campaign of rob_donoghue's this past weekend, has collided with some musings I've been having about MUSH play, in order to produce a little bit of a random thought this morning, that I wanted to capture while it's still fresh in my head:
Satisfying roleplay requires mutual respect of character concepts.
In ( Read more... )

rob_donoghue, my co-conspirator on The Road to Amber (players of the MUSH will know him as Zakalwe), recently wrote an interesting four-part series on his gaming blog about the lessons he learned from the game.
10 Lessons Learned from Road to Amber
Worth a read by anyone interested in the game, RPGs, or MUSHing.

My new project, The Madness of King Brand, is an entirely different type of MUSH. It's a game of personal horror, and its engine is based loosely upon drivingblind's Don't Rest Your Head.
It begins with the premise that Brand successfully took the Jewel from ( Read more... )

People interested in playing my pick-up D&D4e virtual tabletop game, whether on a semi-regular basis or every once in a while, please check out the Campaign Wiki, and join the hat_campaign community. Character concept ideas ( Read more... )

1. My life is ridiculously busy, thanks to work and work travel.
2. You, my friend, are Far Away, and/or your life has been eaten by your children.
3. I nevertheless want to play D&D.
4. Solution: Pick-up game, played via virtual tabletop and voice chat.

Thus, I propose the following:

1. I will run a pick-up D&D4e campaign.
2. My friends are ( Read more... )

judd_sonofbert posed a challenge: Make your own New Crobuzon (of China Mieville's Perdido Street Station) by taking three humanoid monsters and three bizarre monsters from the D&D Monster Manual, explaining how they fit into the city. This has spawned many interesting ideas, and I'm taking up the challenge with an entry of my own.
( Banshrae, Rakshasa, Satyr; Battlebriar, Harpy, Swordwing. )

Once a year, I get together with my old college gaming group (ala the Deadfire Saga, an Ars Magica campaign) to go hang out for an extended weekend, drink, eat unhealthily, shoot the shit, and game.
This year, we did more gaming than usual -- some Pirates of the Spanish Main, some D&D4e, and an interesting little indie RPG called DreadI'm not ( Read more... )

Interesting article from Scientific American: The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn

rob_donoghue pointed out a post of jimhenley's to me. It's worth a read; it's about improv, the groove of creative agreement in roleplay, and system. Different Worlds

This is part of a series of posts on MUSH (and by extension, MMO and LARP) design and administration. I wrote this a while back, never finished it to my satisfaction, and have decided to just go ahead and post it.
adamdray's past post on the "elder game" of FiranMUX made me think about the creeping conservatism of online game ( Read more... )