by Will Hindmarch | Apr 3, 2008 | Fantasy, MMOs, Musing, RPGs, Video Games
Click any image in this article for a larger version.LOTRO is rated “T for Teen” on account of tobacco and alcohol use (also violence), but the purpose of having your character drink alcohol or smoke tobacco is questionable; they have no meaningful affect...
by Jeff Tidball | Mar 28, 2008 | Books, Conventions, Musing, RPGs
I recently finished reading Scott McCloud’s Making Comics. McCloud also wrote Understanding Comics, which, if you haven’t read it, which pop culture have you been living in, exactly? Near the end of Making Comics, in his chapter about having and developing...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 25, 2008 | Board Games, RPGs, Story, Will's Thesis
Let’s take a closer look at how gameplay webs and dramatic elevation work in practice—and how these things relate to that classic icon of RPG adventure architecture: the dungeon. Scenes or encounters arranged to one side of an instigating event (fig 1.1)...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 25, 2008 | Board Games, RPGs, Story, Will's Thesis
Let’s take a closer look at how gameplay webs and dramatic elevation work in practice—and how these things relate to that classic icon of RPG adventure architecture: the dungeon. Scenes or encounters arranged to one side of an instigating event (fig 1.1)...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 14, 2008 | Musing, RPGs
It’s a silly question, but I’m confronted with a choice. I am gathering together a new gaming group and I find myself faced with two extremes: play a game that I can actively work on, so that play is work-related; or play a game that is dead and buried but...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 13, 2008 | Musing, RPGs
This is a comment I posted on Robin Laws’ livejournal some weeks back. I saved it to share here on a slow week. Since I’m not technically back from my deadlines-imposed hiatus until next week, we’ll call this a slow one. Enjoy: One thing I do to...
