Continuing with #RPGaDay2015… 22. Favorite Gaming Environment Since the games I play usually don’t have a lot of moving parts, I’m not really picky about where I play. As long as there’s a place to sit and roll some dice, I’m good. My least favorite place to play games is a crowded convention center room…
Today I’m going to answer 4 questions, which will bring me up to the question with a number that matches the current date. I’m then going to fall behind immediately by not posting on the weekend, but at least I’ll be completely on schedule for the meme for 24 hours. For 18-20, I’m going to…
15. Longest campaign played The longest game I’ve ever played was (QAGS co-founder) Leighton Connor’s “Ficton” super-hero game (not to be confused with The Hex Ficton), which I’ve mentioned here before. It think it lasted around six years, but I’m not sure if it would technically be considered a single campaign; the climax was rooted…
You know an old game that’s a lot of fun? It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show by Stellar Games. I think it’s safe to say that it was the first game where the genre was “camp.” The premise was that the characters were B-movie actors in a terrible horror movie. The rulebook was…
Marvel might have coined (or at least popularized) the term “cinematic universe,” but it’s not a new idea. It’s the way comic book universes have worked for decades, and according to one theory nearly every TV show ever made takes place in a cinematic universe inside a snow globe. A cinematic universe is basically a…
Except for last week’s blog about running con games, I’ve been doing a lot of shameless self-promotion here recently. I’m going to continue the trend again this week, but at least this time I’m using it as a sloppy segue into the main topic of the column. But first, the whoring: Brainfart Press (which is…
If you’re like me, your news and social media feeds have been packed with stories about Mad Max: Fury Road for at least the past week. There are commentaries, reviews (here’s mine), and articles pointing out that THE DOOF WARRIOR IS THE AWESOMEST THING EVER!!!!! There are also a handful of misogynists whining that the…
Last week I posted a new article on Hubpages called “Seven Rules Every Game Master Should Follow.” That explains why I didn’t post here last week, but I don’t have any excuse for the week or two before that beyond a combination of real life stuff and lack of ideas. I’ve written, co-written, or contributed…
Most gamers agree that players are responsible for creating the characters in a role-playing game, but the GM’s responsibilities are more nebulous. Usually we say that the GM is responsible for the world, or stories, or both. In QAGS, I think we said the GM was responsible for “everything else,” which is definitely overstating things….
Last week, I talked about the need (or lack thereof) of special rules for magic in settings with flash-bang magic. The tl;dr version is that if everyone has a good understanding of how magic works in the world and and what a particular type of wizard can do and there are no setting conventions that…
