Saturday, 16 November 2019

The Heather Sea

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I am writing a real book (don't get too excited - it's an academic monograph) and it's getting close to the deadline. This means...
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Monday, 4 November 2019

Mud and Floods

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I spent all weekend hiking in the countryside. This being England, and this being November, this meant rain and mud. Lots of it. There is a ...
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Thursday, 31 October 2019

Nicobobinise Your Game: Interpreting Dreams and Omens

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One of my favourite techniques for giving players a little bit of narrative control and a stake in setting creation without getting all stor...
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Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Incentives Matter

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The other day I listened to an RPG-related podcast in which a story gamer talked about playing an old school game. She was broadly positive,...
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Monday, 28 October 2019

The Greatest OSR Blog Posts Known to Man

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Attempting to list the greatest OSR blog posts ever is a fool's errand of the highest order. I have forgotten 99.9% of the posts I have ...
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Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Once You Label Me You Negate Me - About the OSR, DIY D&D, Sword Dream, and the Rest

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What's your label? I was never a big fan of "OSR". I am not old school (I never played OD&D when it first came out, for ...
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Sunday, 20 October 2019

Let's Discover: The Nicobobinus Gambit

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"This is the story of the most extraordinary child who ever stuck his tongue out at the Prime Minister. His name was Nicobobinus. He l...
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Monday, 14 October 2019

Are We Stupider or More Discerning?

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Layout has moved on a lot. Take a look at these spreads: The first is from Cyberspace , the little-mentioned ICE cyberpunk Rolemast...
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Friday, 11 October 2019

Ex-Pat Rogues

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For the first time in quite a while I heard Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns and Money" today. This song speaks to ex-pats, or pe...
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Monday, 7 October 2019

Don't Fall in Love

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Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels are a case study in what goes wrong when a creator falls in love with a main character. In Red Dr...
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