by Will Hindmarch | Jul 21, 2008 | Musing, Promotion
Lots of things happening this summer, with just one little post to plug them all. First, as you can see, I’m experimenting with some graphical and organizational changes to the site, as we need a way to display the site’s pages that’s a little more...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 18, 2008 | Books, Musing, RPGs
While I don’t always agree with Alt Text’s Lore Sjöberg, today he’s got a stellar parody of RPG forum behavior (in some circles) rendered as a reaction to a cookbook, so today I do. It stings with familiarity. We’re not all like this, but...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 13, 2008 | Fantasy, RPGs, Story
The question has come up on a few forums since Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition debuted: Can it do a gritty, grim style of fantasy adventure? Can it handle adaptations to something less overtly heroic and colorful than the D&D world implied by the power...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 13, 2008 | Fantasy, RPGs, Story
The question has come up on a few forums since Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition debuted: Can it do a gritty, grim style of fantasy adventure? Can it handle adaptations to something less overtly heroic and colorful than the D&D world implied by the power...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 9, 2008 | Fantasy, RPGs, Story, Will's Thesis
In my previous post, I looked at my first real session of play of D&D’s 4th Edition. At the end of that post, I put up a graph comparing the good times being had by us, the players, versus the supposed dramatic arc of the story unfolding through play. This...
