Voice Exercises: Where to Start?
Okay. I’m good at making rules summaries and (somewhat) custom character sheets. I’m pretty good at brainstorming story ideas. I’m even pretty damned good at performance. But one thing I’m …
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Flavours of Adventure
Just how many flavours of adventure can I help a small group of people go on? What sort of alter egos can I help them adopt?
The Warthog Problem, Part 2: One Ship, Five Fools
In my last post, I outlined the Warthog problem: The idea that vehicle combat, although it seems cool at first blush, can actually limit a player’s options such that the …
The Warthog Problem, Part 1: Killing the Fun in Firefight
I’m trying to work out whether there’s a gameplay issue to resolve in my current roleplaying games. And it’s all to do with vehicles. I’ve known about this problem for …
HOMEWORLD: Revelations and the Learning to GM Problem
A good mate made sure to put some recent news in the tabletop roleplaying game sector in front of me yesterday: British tabletop game publisher Modiphius have acquired the tabletop …
Another 12 Minute Convo with Engel Jones!
I neglected to mention on here that the wonderful Engel Jones invited me back on his podcast for another twelve minute conversation! The episode went live a few weeks back! …
Game Master Preparation: Remembering What’s Important
In all the GM prep work, trying to come up with ideas and statistics, making sure I’m presenting interesting challenges for my payers, it’s easy to forget that the ultimate …
The five things right now: #5 – grieving
For the past few weeks, I’ve been posting about how live has been since my wife, Vickie, passed away in April. I’ve touched on the things I’ve been trying to …
The five things right now: #4 – cooking and exercise
It’s been said that eating right and moving your body help give you a fighting chance against the insidious mental ills. That’s something I could use at the moment, given …
Finding who I am – September 2019
A mate and I got to talking about getting back into things yesterday. He’d recently got together with a pack of local muse-os and had discovered his love of blues …