Remember my whine about a Lexicon? Well, Boojie is masterminded the daydream project, a shared universe thats being built as we speak, and which will include original fiction, roleplaying games, and a no-minimum-contribution Lexicon. So, if you commented on my whine saying you want to play - Ruthie, Ori, Itamar, I’m looking at you - [...]
I promised Ziv I’d run a Lexicon game in Hebrew, which should open when his article on Lexicon games in the next issue of Aspamia shows up.
Now, I’m looking for good ideas for a subject/setting for the Lexicon. One thing very clear to me is that I want something that is uniquely Hebrew and Israeli; [...]
An RPG.net photoshop thread of RPG Motivational Posters. Much merriment. (via chadu).
Bicycle-25 is my first entry in the For Want of A Nail Lexicon. Over a 1000 words, and I think only 400 of them are actually about that alternate history. I hope it came out vaguely coherent.
Vincent Baker’s Afraid is a horror roleplaying game, posted on his blog as a set of notes. The mechanics, a system similar to Dogs in the Vineyard, read like code to me, but the sections on setting up scenes (in each scene, a PC is either alone, in trouble, lost or unprepared - or a [...]
I was thinking recently how roleplaying is going through the same sort of process that the comics field has gone through, namely, it’s catering more and more to an aging audience. Overall this is a good thing. If you are in that aging audience. For the hobby, though…
Let me elaborate.
You can tell your audience is [...]
So yesterday I had Ori, Itamar, Boaz and David over to try and play my game. Well, David actually wanted to play Munchkin, but we overruled him. In retrospect, I’m not sure that was the right choice…
It was strange having guests. David remarked that the apartment has a strong feeling of someone’s presence (as if [...]
Like I wrote, this is the game I want to play this weekend:
All worlds are shadows of the one real world; all people, place and things are reflections, shadows cast by the light of your desire. Although everything exists, nothing is real. Only you and your brothers are real. You, and the things you desire. [...]
I want to do something which involves people this weekend. Preferably, people I don’t meet regularly.
My plan is to run a game at my place on Thursday, Friday or Saturday evening. Consider this an open invitation, and let me know if, what and when you might be interested in. Three options present themselves, rated by [...]
Dave Winer said something about the web being indistinguishable from Journalism. Certainly it’s been looking to me for the longest time as a sort of infinite magazine rack, and I see that just like those endless inner pages of the lifestyle section of the daily papers, the Internet - and the blogging bit in particular [...]
This is a review/critique of Guy Shalev’s game Cranium Rats. My comments relate to the draft labeled 1.1 (beta version), which he was kind enough to give me a printed copy of at Bigor 6.
Cranium Rats is a game for 3 players and a GM. Each player plays a different aspect of a single character’s [...]
The dilligent John Kim has a site called An Encyclopedia of Role-Playing Games, which tries to list every roleplaying game ever. A nice feature is that he’s got them organized by years. I once gave a talk on the history of roleplaying games, and noticed that both Champions and Call of Cthulhu came out in [...]
Big collection of Wushu threads on the RPGnet Forums.
Userscripts.org: IntelliTxt Disabler is a Greasemonkey script that gets rid of those insanely annoying advertising links that have polluted sites like rpg.net and devcenter (to mention just two of the less evil ones).
I don’t have to mention that it’s for Firefox, do I? If you’re not using Firefox, why, the terrorists have already won.
Ran and Greif already linked to this, but I have to add my own recomendation: if you think computer games are cool (which I do, in the abstract, I don’t actually play them myself sort of way), you should watch Will Wright’s demo of Spore, a game in development that has been described as from [...]