Who cares what year it is?
I’ve been thinking about “What year is it?” and why it winds people up? I think it’s not necessarily the specificity of it. It’s that we don’t mark ‘genre’ time in that way, except...
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Killing in the Game of…
It was inevitable that the release of the Legends of Vox Machina would ignite a number of internet bonfires, because it seems impossible to write the words ‘Critical Role’ without battle lines being drawn...
Game Culture Six: Talk is Good
I wonder how many issues within gaming groups could be solved if everyone talked to each other? I have a feeling that it would be running well over 75%. Hell, I think if more...
Game Culture Five: Middle-Aged, Middle-Class Professional Syndrome
I can remember it well. I was 16 and we were playing Ninjas and Superspies. Each of us was a highly trained martial artist and secret agent. Banded together by a shady intelligence agency,...
To Boldly Go, Again!
After a few prelude sessions in the Original Series era, we’re ready to strike out into the Shackleton Expanse in the USS Dauntless using the Star Trek Adventures system by Modiphius, skillfully GMd by...
Game Culture Four: Dungeons … and why I hate them
The DNA of the roleplaying hobby has a few things that are baked hard into it and one of them is the concept of ‘the dungeon’. Traditionally, it is some sort of sprawling subterranean...