by Jeff Tidball | Dec 20, 2007 | Story, Websites, Writing
The WGA has been sending e-mail updates to the membership on a more-or-less daily basis since the beginning of the writers’ strike. An update from about a month ago included this bit from the picket lines: [Y]esterday, a middle-aged man who had come all the way...
by Jeff Tidball | Dec 19, 2007 | Musing, Story
I’ve been reading David Mamet’s book about the film industry, Bambi vs. Godzilla. In it, at one point, Mamet asserts: Now, in psychoanalysis, there is no such thing as accident, no such thing as coincidence or mere happenstance. Neither is there in...
by Jeff Tidball | Nov 16, 2007 | Books, Promotion
I didn’t pimp this anywhere else prior to its release, or even when it came out, so I’m forgiven for bringing it up now: Check out Green Ronin’s Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Its 100 essays (with bonus foreward, afterward, and introduction!) each make...
by Jeff Tidball | Nov 14, 2007 | Fantasy, RPGs
In the most recent issue of Comics & Games Retailer, there’s a news item about Wizards of the Coast’s plan for 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons. Each characters class will have a specific, defined role within an adventuring party, and the...
by Jeff Tidball | Nov 11, 2007 | Board Games, card games, Musing, RPGs, Story, Video Games
It’s a new thing, Gameplaywright, and it’s about games, and it’s about stories. It makes sense to start this new thing with a statement for the record — I’m not sure I’ve ever done this — about what I think a game is, and what I think a...
