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I haven’t had much going on that I’ve felt the need to post here about since my last update, but I’ve been fairly busy doing posts elsewhere or running games for people. As I mentioned a few posts ago, I’ve started a new blog Reviews from a Dead Planet, where I will be posting my [...]
Board Games
[Cross-posted, originally posted on Canadian Geek] I’m going to go off in a different direction for this post – I’m going to talk about Board Games. I’m certainly no expert on the subject, but I find several different titles quite enjoyable. I don’t know alot about what goes into designing a board game (of course, [...]
My Take on Character Creation
[Cross-posted, originally posted on Canadian Geek] Every game basically starts the same way – you make a character. For me, character creation has always been one of the hardest things to do, mostly because of the various GMs I had played for requiring an extremely large backstory. Since I think of myself as fairly uncreative, [...]
Brief Game Master Pointers
[Cross-posted, originally posted on Canadian Geek] I’ve got a few administrative items to pass along this month that I’ll pass along before we get to the meat and potatoes. Firstly, I’m going to add something to the end of my columns – a few game recommendations. These titles are likely going to be games I’ve [...]
Challenges Facing Roleplayers
[Cross-posted, originally posted on Canadian Geek] There’s a number of challenges that face roleplayers these days. The lack of time, the lack of ‘new blood’, getting/keeping a gaming group alive are just a few of the things that we find ourselves dealing with. And that only covers face-to-face! As primarily a play-by-post roleplayer, I find [...]
Why not role-play?
I had recently been invited to contribute to another blog (with RPG content) at a community I frequent called Canadian Geek. For my first article, I did a bit more thinking on my post “What’s the Difference” and came up with the following – it mostly contains the same ideas, written differently and incorporates few [...]
