Ok: now that I know I'll be staying through the summer, I kind of want to run a game. Before I got on the D&D train this spring, I'd been cooking up a somewhat less (or more?) traditional fantasy world. Patrick and Sam Finer should remember the one-shot I ran two NonCons ago - were you the only Vassar students in that game? It was a set-up and test ( Read more... )

Hey there, campers! If anyone is free from 4:30 to 5:30 on Friday and wants to do SCIENCE!, you could help out our research methods class by participating in our experiment. It's nothing fancy - no electrodes or anything, just a few index cards - and we need every participant we can get. If you're interested but aren't free this Friday, let me know ( Read more... )

Two in as many years? Dave Arneson, one of the Great Old Ones who spawned Dungeons and Dragons, passed away on Tuesday night. He was instrumental in the game's beginning - really, in a way, you could say that role-playing games are his child. He apparently introduced Gygax to the concept, although it was Gygax who turned the game into the ( Read more... )