Play Culture Zero: My Four Principles of Good Play
One of the upshots of the explosion in online gaming has been that I have been given a chance to play a lot more than I usually get to do. As a perennial GM,...
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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...
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,...