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...
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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...
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)...