by Will Hindmarch | Aug 5, 2009 | Question, RPGs
Here’s another question for you tabletop RPG types: When have you fudged a roll of the dice? I’m less curious about your policies on this matter and more interested in a specific example that you can recall of when you have fudged, faked, or ignored a dice...
by Jeff Tidball | Aug 3, 2009 | Promotion, RPGs, Websites
You’re aware that BoardGameGeek is the best-in-breed website for information about board games. The incredible thing about BGG is that it doesn’t require the qualifier hobby board games, or adventure board games when you describe it. It’s a site for...
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 11, 2009 | Fantasy, Horror, RPGs
For a while, back when, I thought I might run a short chronicle of Mage: The Awakening, set in White Wolf’s hometown of Atlanta. I never did. The core principles of the chronicle were sound, though, so I share them with you now, in the hopes that they’ll...
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 8, 2009 | Design, Fantasy, RPGs
Justin Achilli wrote a great post last week about something I keep meaning to get around to: Licensed games. Go and read that post and the discussion that follows it. My desire to talk about this may explain my rather lengthy reply: On the one hand, I think...
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 2, 2009 | Board Games, Design, Fantasy, Promotion, RPGs, Video Games
BioWare and Green Ronin both have reputations for making great story-based games. Where BioWare has given us classic computer-driven RPGs like Baldur’s Gate, Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect, Green Ronin has created original RPGs like Mutants &...
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 1, 2009 | Board Games, Books, Design, RPGs
Paul Tevis and Ryan Macklin make it hard for me to work. They keep raising the bar on game analysis and discussion, so I have to jump that harder to write or design things that I think will impress them. They keep brightening the lights, leaving me fewer shadows in...
