As I pay less and less attention to facebook and more and more want to establish my own space, I'll be blogging over her at blue collar space instead. Expect more of me than here, but far more self-absorbed.

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Whoever had this idea first is a genius, but his identity seems to be lost. Originally designed for games at conventions, where many players don't know each other, this is a folding character sheet, which lets you display part of the sheet to the rest of the table instead of keeping it all to yourself. Nifty ( Read more... )

Yeah you're probably hoping I'll shut up. Too bad ( Read more... )

Oh we are so close. We're in the home stretch -- down to copy editing and last minute tweaks. We've had solid playtest sessions every week for the past while and we've prepped an official web site. Looks like our first salvo will be through Lulu and we should have a sample chapter up at the site Real Soon Now.


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Playing around with using Fate (as stripped for Diaspora) to do platoon scale science fiction miniatures wargaming. I guess this is the Striker to our Traveller.

So I'm reading Virgil's Aeneid, or more correctly I'm reading the Translator's Note (my favourite part of most classics) to Frederick Ahl's translation, and something struck me about art ( Read more... )

Either everything is deeply interrelated or there are ideas whose time has come or, perhaps, I see patterns where there aren't any. I say this because whenever I read two or three interesting things in a row, no matter how diverse, I see ways in which they are saying the same thing. Perhaps I have a gift for synthesis.

( But I am betting on pareidolia. )

From an essay under revision hereWhen players disagree about how to play a game, the game is disrupted. This is usually easily resolved: the rules define how to play the game, thus reducing the chance of misaligned expectations. However, there is at least one place in role-playing games where "how to play" may be unspoken and, in fact, undiscovered ( Read more... )

A snapshot from an idea in developmentPlay has several features or functions that drive how play proceeds and derive from game rules and the interests of the players. The purpose of this discussion is to find a theory that describes play and creates a model that can be used as a map - not to find out where we are or where we are going, though these ( Read more... )