http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice Where kings throw dice and universes play Fri, 02 May 2008 22:46:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Neel Krishnaswami said, once upon a time in a post I cannot now find, that an RPG is a game where the fiction is part of the rules. I thought it was a very smart statement indeed. The thing this says to me is that when you're playing an RPG ... http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/133 This is a rough, only partly tested system that I whipped up for a game of Afraid that I ran last Halloween. I found the notes recently, and figured I'd toss it out to the world. The Eldritch Arcane is magic for Afraid. It could probably work for Dogs or ... http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/123 Recently I've been talking about freeform play in various and sundry places. I've also been talking about the construction of story and emotional play in RPGs, and the various ways in which we do them. As part of those discussions I looked at how I set up and structure conflicts ... http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/125 It was one of those days where things came together online. Someone recommended Google Reader to manage my blog addiction. I tried it, its working nicely. Now all my feeds are in one place, all right next to each other. One of my feeds was talking about Shock!. One of ... http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/132 As you can see, no Dog's review yet. My computer died, it ate the review, it made me cry. Maybe someday I'll rewrite it. http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/127 So I'm going to start doing some game reviews. I'm going to start with Dogs. I'm doing Dogs first for several reasons. First, I've now been playing the game for years and have played dozens of sessions with dozens of different people, and have talked with a lot more people ... http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/126 So Mo and I are getting into Beast Hunters. I'll be posting a review soon. In the meantime I've done up some cheat sheets to help keep from having to flip and look up the first few times you play the game. (Its easy once its down, but to keep ... http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/121 So the post for this week is just another link, to a redraft of How to Draw Superheroes. I find it awesome and funny. http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/118 There's a new gaming forum up, not just for RPGs but gaming in general. It's focus is a feminist-oriented community for women who love gaming and men who want to network with and learn from said women. It is The IRIS Network and I wish it well. If all my ... http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/117 Recently in a thread on Knife Fight, I said: As we move back and forth between games where you play a character, games where you tell a story through a character, games where you tell a story based around a character, and games where you tell a story, we're going ... http://games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/116