*Actual Play: Golden Sky Stories, The Little Shrine in the Forest*

Part 2: The First Scene
Last time, we wen't through character creation, which was very much a group effort.Now, we find a mystery, bicker a lot,  and make new contacts.
*SO, THE STORY*
It started off with me, Mako hanging out at the fox's shrine, because sometimes fish or fried tofu ( Read more... )

Golden Sky Stories: Actual Play, "The Little Shrine in the Forest"

"Not that I care or whatever, but this is the story about me, the most important character in the story, and how I, OK, with the help of some other animal spirits, saved the world- make that a town- OK, a strawberry patch. And made a young girl's life better. Not that that's ( Read more... )

The FATE Core kickstarter is in it's last day, and I strongly recommend that  if you haven't pledged yet, you go ahead and do so now. For a measly dollar, you get a PDF draft of the FATE Core document, and for $10.00, you get a huge amount of extra PDFs. Plus, if they make the 400K mark, then they'll be putting out a simplified version of the ( Read more... )

This was originally intended to be a Metafilter post, but since Metafilter won't take posts about current kickstarter projects, I'm posting it here.

The Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment (FATE) system has produced notable games ranging from the pulp themed Spirit of the Century, to the hard science fiction Diaspora, to the adaptation ( Read more... )

I've been considering some of the lessons that can be learned from the Wolsung debacle, wherein the designers of a steampunk game apparently were unaware of just how racially insensitive the mixing of fantasy races with real world cultural stereotypes could be.

D&D and other fantasy games often do a lot of problematic conflating between physical and ( Read more... )

Warning: this post contains a lot of triggering concepts, such as rape.

RPG writer James Desborough has caused a controversy that brings up issues of sexism, gaming culture, and censorship. Desborough, author of works such as The Slayers Guide to Female Gamers (review here), Nymphology (review here), and The-Quintessential-Temptress, posted a blog ( Read more... )

While doing a bit of research on Usenet, I stumbled across this old story. It's nowhere near the worst gaming story I've heard (the game with the police and prostitutes is definitely worse), but this one is pretty much the most amusingly bad example of railroading I've ever read. And so:

On May 7 1998, 12:00 am, m...@ottawa.com wrote:

> Story #2:
> ( Read more... )

Sometimes mash-ups are brilliantly funny, and sometimes they are incredibly stupid. And sometimes they are both at the same time,

Case in point:

Ponycraft II: ( The Starcraft II trailer...with ponies. )

Over in the Giant in the Pllayground forums people started a thread about different ways to destroy a large city in D&D. That is, taking down a well defended, populous city the size of say` Forgotten Realm's Waterdeep perhaps.

Unfortunately, most of the suggestions have involved high level magic: plagues, crop destruction, a wight apocalypse, and ( Read more... )

Comes from my continual mishearing of a name. It sounded something like this:

"The Camorra family is on good terms with the Gandalf, but the Runorata are fighting them for control over the area."

So the idea is Middle Earth, where the Mages are immortal alchemists, and they've divided the world up into competing crime families, ala Baccano. It would ( Read more... )