2006 Resolutions
Post more regularly in my online games. Sometimes I wonder how my players put up with me. Play and GM......
4th Edition Compliant!
I've just finished the player characters for the game I'm scheduled to be running at Gypsycon at Easter. I already......
A Nightmare is Over
Good news from Silkenray After almost 7 months being detained by immigration, my beloved husband is now a free man!......
A PBeM Hiatus.
I've finally posted in both active threads in the Kalyr PBeM, after keeping my long suffering players waiting for far......
A Real-life Dungeon?
This Daily Torygraph story about the Belgian pensioner killed by his own booby-trap sounds too much like an RPG scenario......
A Revolution in RPGS
Every so often a game comes along that renders every game published obselete. It has the following characteristics. 1) Minimal......
A new GURPS
Not an embarrassing intestinal complaint, but my RPG system of choice (well, one of them, anyway). The third edition of......
Adventure Writing
Although it's still a month away, I've now written up the adventure I hope to run at Gypsycon over Easter.......
Alternative online RPG formats
Most of the online RPGs I play are versions of the traditional tabletop RPG were you play one character. But......
Around the Blogroll
A couple of links worth reading from Charlie Stross and Patrick Niesen Hayden...
At the end of the world, there will still be... spam
I am privileged to be a player in David Edelstein's message board game based on Steven King's The Stand, running......
August 2004 Dreamscribe
The August issue of Dreamscribe is now online. This one contains the fourth of Amadán's Online GM Tips, and my......
Bad news from Greece
BBC NEWS | Technology | Greek net cafes face ruin Looks any celebrations regarding the demise of the Greek ban......
Bar Code Characters?
With the UPC Bar Code Character Generation, you can turn a household object, publication or any other product with a......
Battle of the Superheroes
In true comic book style, Anglegrinderman has met his arch nemesis, Justlyacquiredpropertyrightsman Well, Anglegrinderman - now you're about to meet......
Beware the Fanboys
In Wanting More Than Anger, Bruce Baugh, line editor of Gamma World tells us some of the things he dislikes......
Beware the emaciated Smurfs!
The Book of Ratings rates some classic D&D monsters. Take the entry for everyone's favourite, the Gelatinous Cube: Here we......
Blogs and Mailing Lists and Wikis, again
Karen Cravens has some responses to my earlier entry on her Gamehawk development weblog. (To which I say "Harrumph, I......
Blogs and Wikis for gaming
plasticbag.org talks of Wikis. I've wondered about the pros and cons of Wikis or Moveable Type for maintaining gameworld information.......
Blogs vs. Wikis vs. Mailing Lists
Carl Cravens has been wondering on the Gamers mailing list about whether blogs take traffic away from mailing lists and......
Braiins! Braaaiinns!!
The Zombie Infection Simulation simply defies description. (Requires Java, Link from Chad Underkoffler)......
Bye-Bye Meetup.com
Meetup.com have just become a pay site, charging 18 US dollars per month to the organiser of each group. I......
Call of Fudge
In a comment against Down with Cthulhu, Bruce Baugh asks me how I did a conversion from Call of Cthulhu......
Carl becomes a POD person
Carl Cravens announces that he's getting into publishing: I'm starting a publishing company to publish Fudge-compatible PDFs, and eventually larger......
Changes at The Phoenyx
The long-awaited web-based front-end for The Phoenyx is now in Beta. The existing email system will remain unchanged, but the......
Christmas Thought of the Day
Now I've done most of my Christmas shopping, I see I've managed to ensure all the presents I've bought are......
Clashes!
The trouble with having more than one passionate interest that you have great difficulties deciding what to do when the......
Computer names
Ginger has just partitioned a hard drive into three partitions named "Amber", "Rebma" and "Tir", and concludes she's been playing......
Conflict Resolution: Actual Play
This is an 'actual play' example of Conflict Resolution. The context is that Kolath, an officer of the 5th Legion,......
Conflicts!
I'm doing evil experiments on the players of my PBeM and PBmB games. Up to now I've largely be using......
Conjuration
Reason the blog's been silent all weekend is that I've been to another gaming convention, Conjuration, held in Cambridge. It's......
Consternation!
Consternation is the latest of a series of RPGs held every other year in New Hall in Cambridge. I attended......
Corrupting the Next Generation
No, simply giving N gauge trains for Christmas wasn't enough.... It was the Christmas day family party game called 'The......
Cthulhu is still sleeping?
So it wasn't a Shoggoth after all. The beached "blob" was a whale carcass. Well, that's what they want you......
Cthulhu!
If talk of Shoggoths, Deep Ones and Great Old Ones has you totally confused, Dodgeblogium explains everything you need to......
Dorothea�s Law of Velar Villainy
I once spent a lot of time making up languages for the World of Kalyr. Unlike the master of invented......
Down with Cthulhu?
Iä! Bruce Baugh disses Chaosium's version of Call of Cthulhu, and puts forward the loathsome, blasphemous idea that d20 Cthulhu......
Dragonmeet 2003
I've spend part of the weekend at the last gaming convention of 2003, Dragonmeet. Since I'm not currently in any......
Dreamlyrics
DreamLyrics has an all-new look! DreamLyrics is a friendly online message gaming community dedicated to role-playing gamers, where new members......
Dudley Bug Ball
Spent an enjoyable Saturday at the Dudley Bug Ball, playing games such as Car Wars, where I crashed and burned......
Fantasy Novels for Gamers
Game WISH is a weekly question set by Ginger of Perverse Access Memory. Each week's WISH focuses on some aspect......
Faster than the Speed of Light!
Carl Cravens wonders how to approach Faster-than-light travel in games. I've been thinking about this from a gaming view point.......
From the Men In Black.
According to this well known publication, a central asian power has been relieved of a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Warning.......
Fudge Factor is back
After a long absence, the Fudge ezine Fudge Factor is back with a new issue.......
Fudge RPG thoughts
Carl Cravens mentions the lengthy 'What is Fudge' discussion on the Fudge mailing list, and mentions the problems he's been......
Fudge events
First, there's a new Fudge Web Forum. The mere existence of such a thing is controversial to some people, who......
GM Resolutions
Ilyanna has posted some GM's New Year Resolutions that every PBeM GM really ought to read. They're published in Dreamscribe,......
GURPS 4th Edition
Now I've got my hands on a copy of GURPS 4th Edition. GURPS 4th Edition is a major overhaul of......
GURPS!
My Game System Overview on GURPS is now up on Dreamscribe. There's also a review of HatCon with a player's......
Game Dream 10: Tangled Webs
Game Dream 10 asks us: During games, how do you keep track of the various plot hooks, hints, and people?......
Game Dream 11: You Said What?
Game Dream 11 asks us: In every campaign, there are memorable scenes. Often, this is due as much to player......
Game Dream 18: Mock Review
Game Dream 18 asks us to: Do a mock review of a game that doesn't exist, but you think really......
Game Dream 5: Cooperative Storytelling
Doc's Game Dream is the successor to Game WISH. I've got some catching up to do on this one, it's......
Game Dream 6: Conventions
Game Dream 6 asks us: Have you attended a game or media (i.e. comic book / SF) convention? If not,......
Game Dream 8: I'm Late, Rewind!
And I'm late answering this one! Game Dream 8: I'm Late! Rewind! asks us: How have the games you've been......
Game Over for Greek games ban
Game Over for Greek games ban. Looks like the Greek supreme court has thrown this stupid law out as unconstitutional.......
Game Publishing Thoughts
Carl Cravens has a dilemma. He's got an idea for a space opera setting, and wonders whether to submit it as an article to Fudge Factor, or whether to polish up a longer version to sell as a downloadable PDF product. I myself have been wondering along the same lines.......
Game WISH 14: Cross-Gender Play
What do you think about cross-gender characters? I don't think I do female characters very well. I try to avoid the obvious cliches, and end up playing characters that are effectively blokes in drag. As a player I prefer to play male characters, as a GM my female NPCs (at the moment in my PBeMs and PBMBs I seem to be playing as many female NPCs as male) tend to be a bit two-dimensional. You'll have to ask my players how well they come over. ...
Game WISH 25: New PCs
Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 25: New PCs, Existing Party I haven't posted anything to the last couple of......
Game WISH 27: SF RPGs
Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 27: Science Fiction RPGs The RPG market is dominated by fantasy (with horror coming......
Game WISH 71: Unwritten NPCs
Game WISH 71: Unwritten NPCs asks: For GMs : when you plan or play your NPCs, do you intentionally leave......
Game WISH 74: Supplements
Game WISH 74 is Supplements You'd Like to See Name three or more supplements (or core books, for that matter)......
Game WISH 75: Religion and Controversy
Being a believer myself, I feel that including any real-world religion in a game that also includes magic and supernatural elements is always going to be a situation where you have to tread carefully, especially if any of the players are strongly religious....
Game WISH 79: Ideal Cast Size
This week's Game WISH asks: What do you think is the best cast size for the games you�ve played? What......
Game WISH 81: My Favourite System
I don't have a single game system, but I can narrow things down to two systems, utterly unlike one another in some ways, and very similar in others. ...
Game WISH 84: Five Games
Game WISH 84 asks: What five games would you love to run/play if you had a willing group and a......
Game WISH 91: Appropriating from Fiction
WISH 91 is about Appropriating From Fiction How often do you appropriate bits from books, movies, comics, and other sources......
Game WISH 93: Enough and Too Much
I love games with rich, detailed settings. I remember the time I first joined the RPGAMES forum on CompuServe many years ago, and reading through the background files for the various games run on the message boards. Two of the first games I joined were the two with the greatest volume of background material....
Game WISH 94: Obnoxious Characters
This week's Game WISH is about Obnoxious Characters How do you handle an obnoxious character who has habits that annoy......
Game WISH 98: What's New
Game WISH 98 asks: What are three games or settings that you've bought or seen recently (in stores or previews)......
Game WISH 99: Best Genre RPGs
Game WISH 99 asks: Pick three to five genres and name the best RPG for that genre. Why do you......
Game Wish 100: The Last Great War Story
All good things must come to an end. The 100th and final Game WISH asks us: Tell me your favorite......
Game Wish 11: Character Recognition
Have you ever seen or met someone -- in person, on TV, in a movie, or whatever -- who made......
Game Wish 12: Mood Maintenance
This week's WISH from Turn of a Friendly Die. Sometimes in my games, I try to set a mood, only......
Game Wish 15:GM's role
This week's Game Wish from Turn of a Friendly Die What is your idea of the relationship between GM and......
Game Wish 16: Old and New
I've moved from GMing and playing in long-running campaigns to a mix of one-shot convention-style games and PBeMs/PBMBs, so that's a big change in gaming style!...
Game Wish 17: Props
Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 17: Props How do you use props in your game? Give three examples, and......
Game Wish 18: Sticking Points
I'm running a week late here, this is last week's one, about Sticking Points. Every player has sticking points. (Yes,......
Game Wish 19: Heart Characters
This week's Game Wish (I'm catching up now) is about Heart Characters Today's question is about your heart character. The......
Game Wish 20: Skill Mismatches
This week's Turn of a Friendly Die Game Wish is about Skill Mismatches The situation often arises that a player's......
Game Wish 21: Playing and GMing
I'm running late! This is last week's Game Wish, on Playing and GMing. Does GMing improve an individual's playing? Does......
Game Wish 22: Equality and Equivalence
This week's Game Wish is on Equality and Equivalence The typical party of PCs appears to be composed of equals.......
Game Wish 41
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 41: Coherence I've got seriously behind on these. How coherent do you expect a game world......
Game Wish 42: Reusing Characters
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 42: Reusing Characters Do you ever reuse characters from game to game? When you reuse characters,......
Game Wish 44: Picking Games
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 44: Picking Games How do you choose games to join or to run? What factors influence......
Game Wish 45: Warm Fuzzies!
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 45: Accolades and Warm Fuzzies Who are some gamers you admire and appreciate? Name three (or......
Game Wish 4: Systems
Game WISH from Turn of a Friendly Die This is my first attempt at answering one of these; since I......
Game Wish 51
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 51: New Genres What are three genres that you've had limited exposure to as a gamer......
Game Wish 52
Game Wish 52: Your Robin Laws Type Robin Laws identifies several types of gamer in his book of GM tips:......
Game Wish 54: Background Hooks
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 54: Background Hooks This week's question concerns character backgrounds. Do you like to have bits and......
Game Wish 55: What's in a Name?
From The Dying Earth RPG: If you give your character a mundane or anachronisic name, like Nigel or Sue, your GM should allow you proceed though the entire creation process, only to have your character horribly slain in the opening scene of the first adventure. Do not say we failed to warn you....
Game Wish 56: Friends and Associates
Game Wish 56 asks about Friends and Associates Do your characters have friends and associates who play a regular role......
Game Wish 62: Villains
This is a difficult one. Much of my gaming, the 'opposition' has been dumb monsters or 'bad guy of the week', and I haven't done much with recurring villains. Since much of my face to face gaming nowadays is convention-style one-shots, there's not so much scope to develop villains. Therefore most of the ones that come to mind come from online gaming....
Game Wish 68: Multiple GMs
I haven't done any Game WISHes for a while. This week's one is about Multiple-GM Games. Have you ever played......
Game Wish 72: Characterus Interruptus
Game WISH is back. WISH 72: Character Interruptus asks: Talk about a few characters you had to stop playing before......
Game Wish 82: Three Word Summaries
Game WISH 82 asks: Sum up one or more games that you GM or play in 10 words or less.......
Game Wish 85: Inspiration
Game WISH 85 is all about Character Inspirations What inspires you to create characters? Do you have partially-developed characters in......
Game Wish 89: All Good Things Must Come To An End
Game WISH will be coming to an end after number 100. In keeping with this theme, Game WISH 89 asks:......
Game Wish 90: Upgrades
Game WISH 90 is about System Updates What do you think about system updates (Paranoia XP, Amber 2.0, DnD 3.0/3.5)......
Game Wish 95: How Many Colours?
Game WISH 95 talks morality: How many colors do you like in your gaming? Do you prefer four-color games? Or......
Game Wish 9: Changing the World
This week's WISH from Turn of a Friendly Die What's the most fun you ever had creating something in a......
Game Wist 36: Supplements
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 36: Supplements What do you think about supplements to game systems? Do you like the additional......
Gamethink!
Another gaming blog hits the Blogosphere. Gamethink is a group blog of gaming professionals, lead by Bruce Baugh.......
Gaming and music
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 35: Music How does music influence your campaigns? As a GM, do you feel there are......
Gaming is Radio 4?
Rock Scissors Blog has an interesting analogy between radio vs. TV and pencil and paper RPGs vs online computer gaming.......
Gaming, not Blogging.
Blogging has been light lately. I've given I higher priority to the online games I run, the Dreamlyrics games KLR......
Gen Con UK report, part 1
I've survived the first day of Gen Con UK, even if we made a complete mess of the GURPS Cliffhangers......
Gen Con UK report, part 2
Let's make Scott even more jealous. Friday - I used up all my positive dice karma playing Ogre, in which......
Ghosts of Games Past
A thread on DreamLyrics has got people waxing nostalgically about legendary online games of the past, both in Dreamlyrics itself,......
Going Underground
Teresa of Making Light has discovered the wonderful www.nycsubway.org site. I discovered this about three years back when I was......
Going pear-shaped
Bankuei gives us a scary diagram that's supposed to represent dysfunctional RPG play. While I've played and even GMed the......
Greece Bans Electronic Gaming
According to this news.com article, the Greek government has banned all electronic and computer gaming of any kind, ostensibly as......
Greek Gaming Ban - Again
BBC NEWS | Technology | Reprieve for Greek gamers Now they've issued a "clarification" to the police telling them only......
Greg Costikyan's Weblog
Noted game designer Greg Costikyan has a brand-new weblog focusing, naturally, on game design.......
Grognards and Lima Collectors
I suspect the same sort of pathologies exist in an awful lot of different hobbies. Compare this post from Bruce......
Gypsycon 8
Gypsycon 2006 was the eighth annual face-to-face meetup of the Dreamlyrics community, held at the teeming metropolis of Pidley, Cambridgshire,......
Gypsycon Six!
Things have been quiet on this weblog for a while. This is because I'm still recovering from four solid days......
Gypsycon V
Just back from four solid days of gaming at Gypsycon in deepest Cambridgeshire, hence the total lack of blogging for......
Gypsycon VII
Easter weekend saw the seventh Gypsycon. More than a dozen people, most of whom are connected in some way to......
Hatcon III
Well, I survived Hatcon III, the lastest of the mini-cons by the Dreamlyrics and ex-RPGAMES crew. This one was held......
HeroQuest is out!
Hero Quest, the new RPG set in Glorantha is out. Although billed as a brand new game, it's really the......
High Wierdness
I've heard of wierd RPG game ideas, but this has to be one of the strangest ideas I've seen. This......
Highly Wierd Comparisons
A comment from Steve "Electric Nose" Jones has set my mind thinking in wierd ways....
History lessons for kids
Just what do today's 12 year olds make of the computer games our generation used to play? On Tetris Tim:......
Hite on Indie Games
Ken Hite discusses indie games in his Ouf of the Box column. Occasionally I'm taken to task by various peers......
Honesty in On-Line GMs?
An awful lot of PBeM or PBmB games fold after a few moves, but I have to wonder if this......
Horror on the GNER
I'm definitely tempted by this new horror game on DreamLyrics. A pity the GM has to trash a perfectly good......
Hurting Wrong Fun
I've always had mixed feelings about The Forge. On one hand, they've got some very good ideas about game design,......
I'm sure I've been doing all this wrong.....
This page on The Phoenyx lists one of the things a GM isn't supposed to do is give people and......
Ia!! Gygax F'tagn!!
Pagan Prattle gives us this (No permalinks, but it's the second article down), giving a screed from Jack Chick's site,......
Idiot's Guide to Kalyr
I mentioned in the previous post about running convention games using my Kalyr setting. I though I'd post the one......
Imaginary Worlds
Last week I attended the funeral of a member of our church, a lifelong railway enthusiast. The eulogy his son-in-law......
Is PBeM Roleplaying?
For a variety of reasons, I've got very behind on GAME WISH responses. WISH 30 asks this question: Are PBeM......
Is PBeM Roleplaying?
I would say "yes". But this posting on 'Constrained Writing' at the The 20' By 20' Room doesn't seem to......
It's all right for some.
Some Game bloggers get to be invited to the best parties. Not that I'm jealous, of course.......
It's not disclorping, Captain! Too much thription!
Which of these words is the odd one out? disclorping - dweomercraft - illarptacture - naightentance - phantrite - snoiggal......
July Dreamscribe
Actually been up a couple of weeks now. There's a bit more meat in the July issue, most notably Amadán's......
July Dreamscribe!
The July Dreamscribe is out! It may look as butt-ugly as the default blogger template (sorry guys, but it does!),......
Just got back from sleep-deprivation
Just got back from sleep-deprivation at Stabcon, a weekend-long gaming convention, held in a hall of residence at Manchester Metropolitan......
Kalyr RPG Progress, 9/10/05
I'm currently working on the game mechanics chapter, which will (probably) be chapter three. I wrongly assumed this would be......
Kalyr RPG progress
I'm slowly getting somewhere with the Kalyr RPG. Parts of it are almost ready for playtesting. Other parts still need......
Kalyr RPG: Outlines and Thoughts
I'm still considering the possibility of writing a full-blown Kalyr RPG, to be sold as a PDF download. I've got......
Kalyr meets Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Population: One: Monday Mashup #2 We have a new gaming meme, the Monday Mashup. And this week it asks: Pick......
Ketchup is a Vegetable
OK, so which Illuminati just played the Ketchup is a Vegetable card? Don't know what I'm on about? All I......
Last RPG Purchase
I've got out the habit of doing gaming memes, but I'll do this one. Lunchtime Poll 30: Whaddaya Got? What's......
Less chrome, more black eyeshadow
David Edelstein (a.k.a Amad�n) tells us what he really thinks about the World of Darkness. I make a lot of......
Lunchtime Poll #2
After the unfortunate demise of Docs Blog and the Game Dream meme (the entire site is sadly no more), a......
Mage Thoughts
The Gline is uncomfortable with Mage:The Ascention. One of the reasons I sort of stopped playing White Wolf's Mage is......
Manchester Roleplaying Meetup
Meetup.com have revamped and reinvented themselves. There were previous GURPS and Fudge meetups scheduled for Manchester, but neither ever got......
March Dreamscribe!
The March edition of DREAMSCRIBE is out, featuring some convention reviews by yours truly.......
May Dreamscribe
The May 2004 edition of Dreamscribe is now online. Of particular interest is Neil "Shark" Marsden's account of one of......
Meme time again
Time for another meme. This one comes via Perverse Access Memory: List five things that people in your circle of......
Monday Mashup: Star Trek
Time for a Monday Mashup. This is an old one from more than a year ago: Star Trek. That's the......
Monday Mashup: This is Spinal Tap
I haven't participated in the Monday Mashup very much, but last week's was based on one of my all-time favourite......
More Hurting Wrong Fun
RPG guru Ron Edwards tries to explain what he means by "Brain Damaged". I'm still not sure I agree with......
Music Man Was Not Meant To Hear
No, not Ümläüt this time, but A Shoggoth on the Roof: the Cast Album. One for Andrew Ian Dodge, methinks.......
Non-Standard Characters
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 34: Non-Standard Characters Do you prefer to build a character with a unique concept, or do......
Off to Hatcon
No blogging for the next few days, I'm off to Hatcon, one of the so-called 'Mini-Cons' hosted by Pete Hat,......
On Roleplaying
I advertise this site as "RPGs, Trains, Music", but I realise while I've posted several lengthy railway and music-related pieces,......
One Good Thing About Virgin Voyagers
You can run you laptop off the mains in one; which means I can use the laptop the train for......
Online GMing advice
David Edelstein (Amad�n to his friends) has posted some wonderful Online GMing Tips on the DreamLyrics Message Board.......
PBeM Archive blog
I've created a new blog for the Kalyr PBeM Archives. At the moment, it's a bit experimental; it's more or......
PBeM Postings!
I'm getting back up to speed on my on-line games, in keeping with my new year's resolutions. However, if this......
PBeM resumption
I've got all my on-line games back up and running after the Xmas hiatus. The PBeM posts for my game......
PBeM writing
Dorothea Salo has some interesting thoughts on PBeMs, game fiction and 'fluff'. I agree that great things can happen on......
Parallel Universes
A poster on Pyramid Online asked the following: I'm running a kind of "kitchen sink," modern, horror, dark fantasy game.......
Play resumes.
My PBMB on Dreamlyrics is underway again after a slightly longer hiatus that I'd planned, following my holiday and the......
Play-by-Blog
It had to happen! Here's a Play-by-Blog D&D Campaign! I've wondered about using Moveable Type to manage my game archives......
Play-by-Email
New round of posts up on the Kalyr PBeM. If you want to know what a Play-by-Email game (for that......
Players Wanted!
If anyone's thinking of joining Dreamlyrics (not a free site, but well worth the money!), I've just put out a......
Pretentious, Moi?
Vincent Baker comments on Ron Edwards' new game, Spione Spione is, however, a game that'll inherently seem both very difficult......
Primetime Adventures at Stabcon
In my Stabcon review, I promised a full writeup of the Primetime Adventures game run by Micheal Cule on the......
Quest Completed
The Kalyr PBeM has just about reached the end of the quest! 7 years into the game, and five years......
Quote of the Day #2
"In many ways, I'd say the divide between rules-lite and rules-heavy is how much help the game thinks you need......
RIP John M Ford
The world has lost SF author, game writer and railway enthusiast John M Ford. I never met the man in......
RPG Campaign Styles
This week's Game WISH is about Campaign Styles Do you prefer campaigns to be limited-plot, with a definite ending, or......
RPG Die Mechanics
The Non-Euclidian Staircase discusses Rolling Dice, with a growing comment thread, on what makes a good RPG dice mechanic, and......
RPG Progress
I haven't posted anything for a while about the Kalyr RPG, the Fudge-based vaguely Vancian science-fantasy game I've been working......
RPG links of the day
Mike Mearls profiles The Year Ahead in RPG Releases: 2006 The Eighties RPG, 2006 Edition: Remember that game from the......
RPG meme bandwagon
More RPG Memes! This one's all over the RPG corner of the Blogosphere; I think I saw it first on......
RPGS: Back to the 70s?
After the of doom and gloom of last months Out of the Box, Ken Hite speculates on the likely future......
Random Distractions
The Wandering Distraction Table, for things to interrupt your gaming session. All these are (allegedly) real incidents. Some highlights: 18:......
Real-life dungeons?
Fascinating site on disused London Underground stations, closed stations beneath the streets of London. Some are dimly visible from the......
Reinventing the Phoenyx.
I've been running my Kalyr PBeM on The Phoenyx for something like five years now. This site, run by Carl......
Resolution Lag
Great post in RPG Blog about Resolution Lag As many of us get older, we often find that we no......
Review: GURPS Infinite Worlds
I'm a big fan of alternate histories. The two GURPS Alternate Earths books published a few years back for the......
Review: GURPS Planet of Adventure
GURPS Planet of Adventure is the latest in a long line of licenced GURPS worldbooks based on science fiction novels,......
Sashcon
Just got back from Sashcon in sunny Crewe, another RPG weekend with friends from the RPGAMES community. I ran a......
Some PBeM postings
A big PBeM post this time, so big that I've had to split it into three when it came to......
Still Recruiting!
Do you want to visit the wondrous land of Kalyr, and experience it's wonders first hand, as opposed to just......
Story vs. Experience
In a post which is mostly about podcasts and gaming conventions, Carl Cravens says: I'd talk about indie/"story" games tangentially,......
Summer Stabcon 2006
Summer Stabcon lived up to its usual expectations; I've been going to this small local convention for four years now,......
Ten Dorkiest Hobbies.
The Wave Magazine lists the ten dorkiest hobbies. I'm please to see Railway Modelling isn't on the list. Interesting there's......
Ten Years of Kalyr
I'm not sure of the actual date because I no longer have the archives of the very early posts to......
That sniper again
DORK TOWER expresses the relief felt by quite a few people. Despite a comment of mine on Dodgeblogium, it looks......
The 20' by 20' Room
The 20' By 20' Room is a new group gaming blog, featuring some familiar names.......
The Alphabet Synthesis Machine
Thanks to Eric Olsen for this one: The Alphabet Synthesis Machine - generate your own fictional alphabet, and download it......
The Curse of the Fanboy!
On Rock Scissors Blog, White Wolf writer and now Gamma World developer Bruce Baugh talks about playtesting. Likewise, if the......
The Decline and Fall of an RPG
Amadán tells is the story of the decline and fall of In Nomine, a game line that lost it's way......
The Forge and Indie RPGs
I've been spending far too long reading essays and threads on The Forge recently. The site is a great resource......
The Game That Should Not Be!
From John Tynes' blog comes some horrifying news - there's to be a d20-based roleplaying game based on John Norman's......
The Kalyr Wiki
One reason I've been slow updating this weblog recently; I've been busy writing up material for the Kalyr Wiki. Much......
The Non-Euclidian Staircase has moved
The Non-Euclidian Staircase now has it's own domain! I wondered where it had gone..........
The Page of Generators
Making Light linked to this page of generators. Many of them are fantasy naming generators of the sort I guess......
The Phoenyx Fantasy Lexicon Game
There's a new Lexicon Game starting at The Phoenyx. The first one never really got off the ground after failing......
The Politics of SF
Those wacky liberatians at Samizdata.net bemoan the decline of heroic libertarian SF of the style of Heinlein and co. in......
The Prior-Art-O-Matic on RPGs
Let's see what the The Prior-Art-O-Matic has to say about RPG game systems... FUDGE is a scooter that makes you......
The Pros and Cons of Fudge
There's some debate on Fudge Mailing List and RPGNet about the pros and cons of Fudge. What makes it a......
The RPG Cliche List
Your essential reading for today is the RPG Cliche List. Some randomly quoted examples: Amber Law. Gamemasters and players can......
The Song Must Go On, and On, and On
You want bizarre conspiracy theories? Which encompass Middle Earth and Celene Dion? Try this one on Dreamscribe, written by Neil......
The Stand Begins
The message board game based on The Stand is now running, and I've got my first player posting up! Since......
The Stand!
Amad�n is running another message board game based on The Stand, this time on Dreamlyrics. The original game he ran......
The Stars Are Right?
Have Ümläüt performed one dark ritual too many? Or have I just been playing too much Call of Cthulhu?...
The World of Kalyr
Unlike those people who start new RPG campaigns every six months or so, I've been using the same setting for almost all the games I've run for the past fifteen years or so....
The d20 Blogger!
Lawrence Simon of Amish Tech Support is claiming he's now reached 9th level, and wonders if anyone's created a Blogger......
The growing blogroll..
I've been steadily adding more and more blogs to the ever expanding blogroll. New today is The Non-Euclidian Staircase, the......
The reason for light blogging
Not much blogging recently; I've been concentrating my limited time on keeping my on line games running; you can see......
The return of Ümläüt
After too long a hiatus, everyone's favourite goth-metal band are back on stage Karl gives Steve the "You are going......
The return of Fudge Factor
After far too long an absence, Fudge Factor is back! The format is changing slightly; rather than monthly issues, they're......
Timewaster!
Do you spend a lot of time playing computer games? Do you think you might actually have a problem with......
Two Online Gaming Zines
Two online gaming zines hit the net in the last couple of days. First, the June issue of Dreamscribe, the......
WISH 13: Character Backgrounds
Let's go back into the world of make-believe after all this political stuff in news. Today's Game Wish from Turn......
Wandering Message Board Monsters
Read Monte Cook's Wandering Monster Table for a guide to the creatures you might encounter in weblog comment threads, message......
Whichever has the most plusses
Why do I get the horrible feeling that one of my PBmB players is a little bit of a munchkin?......
Why I don't play MMORPGs
I've never got into Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs like Ultima Online or Warcraft. Raph Koster's lament explains why... The most......
Winter Stabcon 2006
I think this is my sixth Stabcon. If you haven't heard of it, Stabcon is small (150-ish people) board game......
Winter Stabcon, 2005
This is the first time I've managed to make it to the Winter Stabcon; usually the date clashes with the......
Wish 40: Preferred Styles
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 40: Preferred Style What style of game do you prefer to play in? Style here does......
You know you're a gamer if...
One of those "You know you're a gamer" moments happened at Stabcon a couple of weeks ago. Out of the......
You know you've been playing too much GURPS when..
You can tell when a film review is written by a GURPS player......
Your Ideal RPG Group?
Slykin has an gaming question: What if you could assemble an ideal collection of folk past of present to participate......
Zero SAN
You may be familiar with Jack Chick's infamous badly drawn loopy fundamentalist tracts (such as the infamous Dark Dungeons). Now......
�ml��t on Tour
Our intrepid fly-on-the-wall records �ml��t on their American tour. This is the night after their show was brought to premature......