by Jeff Tidball | Oct 3, 2008 | card games, Design, Musing, RPGs, Writing
I recently read an interesting article, “Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer” on a prominent website aimed at web designers. The author makes a case for turning the metaphor of web designer as architect around, proposing that a web...
by Will Hindmarch | Sep 19, 2008 | Fantasy, Horror, Musing, RPGs
I know it’s nostalgia because it aches a little. It’s something about the time of year. This is when, longer ago now than it seems, I’d sink into the thick of the school year. The air mellowed out, it got dark sooner, and summery shirts gave way to...
by Will Hindmarch | Sep 11, 2008 | MMOs, RPGs, Storyteller's Dilemma Series
My new table-top RPG group hasn’t gotten together for a month now. In fact, we’ve only played twice so far. Finagling our grown-up schedules and managing the physical distance between our physical selves is just plain complicated. There are jobs and meals...
by Zack Walters | Aug 7, 2008 | Fantasy, RPGs, Writing
Please welcome guest contributor Zack Walters and the first part of his multi-post look at introducing D&D 4E to his gaming group: I recently found myself back in a too-familiar situation: a game I was playing in was wrapping up. We all wanted to keep playing...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 15, 2008 | Accessories, RPGs
For the last six months or so, I’ve been using OmniGroup’s fine productivity application OmniFocus to manage all of my crap, and have been slowly easing myself all up into GTD. I’d recommend either, or both, to pretty much anybody. Here’s what...
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...
