Games Culture Three: Freedom of Movement
Encumbrance and movement go hand in hand in my book, one is the far more important cousin of the other. Where, in the spirit of emulation, one is almost irrelevant (encumbrance), the other (movement)...
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Games Culture Two: Avoiding the urge to shop
There are precious few seminal shopping scenes in fiction. Maybe Harry Potter buying his wander from Olivander in Diagon Alley? The newly-promoted Horatio Hornblower spending his scant monies on his new uniform? It’s not...
Games Review 2021: It Could Have Ended Better
Gaming Review of the Year 2022 It’s been the same for everyone, a solid year of online gaming. Well, almost. There was a little face-to-face thrown in towards the end before it all went...
Games Culture One: Musings on Death
The death of a player character is a contentious topic on the realms of tabletop RPGs. In fact, the finality of character death in TTRPGs is one of the defining differences between those games...
Games Culture Zero: What do I mean by games culture?
There’s a lot of gaming advice out there, some good and some terrible. One thing that I have always balked at when presented with gaming advice – even the best of the best –...
Using the Card of Fate System
Both Duty & Honour and Beat to Quarters (as well as Martin Lloyd’s upcoming Inferno rpg) use the Card of Fate system. These videos show you how to complete a simple and opposed test,...