Dear Blizzard Support:

I just had the, ah, “pleasure” of being matched up with a player whose username was Klitorectomy, which is rather obviously a mispelling of clitorectomy, or female genital mutilation. If you aren’t aware of what clitorectomy is, there is a succinct overview here: Read more... )

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Matt Snyder (author of Dust Devils, Nine Worlds, and various other awesome things) has published his new game, 44: A Game of Automatic Fear, for free from his site. As a bit of backstory, Matt initially started 44 as a design challenge. The game has surfaced before as a playtest ashcan - and a very pretty one - and Matt has taken the feedback ( Read more... )

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With Meg and I flying back into town after a weekend at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, it appeared that we were going to be playing at the low ebb of our energy. Our babysitting for the night was slightly different than normal, which meant we’d also be playing a bit shorter. Thus, I planned for a short session: some stir-the-pot ( Read more... )

We kicked off our Houses of the Blooded campaign last night. I ended up tailoring the night’s content pretty well to our “abbreviated” play footprint; in my head, we’re playing through a half-hour political drama teevee show, not a full hour, which fits our available three-and-a-half hours of play pretty well.

My three players were instantly at ( Read more... )

You know how, in television shows where the protagonists are about to deal with the introduction of the Antagonist of X, the show leads with a flashback to their first encounter with X? This gives the audience some understanding of the protagonists’ current stance towards X, and presumably Antagonist of X, so when the first confrontation happens, ( Read more... )

If you’re enjoying Rooksbridge serial fiction (and there’s a new one up today!), here’s some other places to get other serial fiction:

Scott Lynch is doing Buroughs-esque Barsoom serial fiction at Queen of the Iron Sands.

Derek Haas and other screenwriters are posting short pulpy fiction at Popcorn Fiction.

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Jake Richmond is such a smarty.

Mirrored from Kallisti Press.

The local Los Angeles Strategicon was this last weekend. We attended (with little Prudence, her very first con!), and had a blast. I did not run the IPR booth at Gamex this time around, which was sort of awesome. It meant I had lots of time to just hang out, chat with friends, and play lots of games. I barely noticed not having a ‘home base’ to ( Read more... )