The next two questions are short answers, which means I’ll actually be up to date on the meme again. 24. Favorite House Rule The only house rule that I have these days is that anyone who quotes Monty Python out of context loses Yum Yums. We’ve all seen it, and you’re no John Cleese. Long,…
This article, which reprints Timothy Leary’s International Congress of Applied Psychology presentation, “How To Change Behavior,” recently showed up in my newsfeed. What does Timothy Leary have to do with gaming? Well, in the case of “How To Change Behavior,” the whole presentation starts with the idea of looking at behavioral sequences as games: “The…
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Supporting characters are a lot more interesting when there’s something weird about them. While you don’t want to give every single GMC the characters meet a quirky trait (unless you’re playing a David Lynch-style game), important or recurring characters will be more memorable if they’ve got an unusual trait. The list below is for…
REVERB GAMERS 2012, #28: Do you have any house rules when you game? What are they, and why do you use them? If not, why not? (Courtesy of Atlas Games. Visit them at www.atlas-games.com) Not sure if it counts as a house rule, but when Leighton Connor mentioned how he usually handles combat during a…
REVERB GAMERS 2012, #27: If you were an Ent, what kind of Ent would you be? Or, what other NPC creature would you be? Why? (Courtesy of Atlas Games. Visit them at www.atlas-games.com) I haven’t played D&D since the mid-90s, but back then I only remember one kind of Ent. This must be some kind…
