by Will Hindmarch | Nov 1, 2011 | Design, RPGs, Websites
In case you don’t have enough to read already, I thought I’d bring two more RPG-related columns to your attention. Are you reading these already? Back in September, the inestimable Monte Cook reunited with Wizards of the Coast and took over writing the...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 1, 2011 | Design, RPGs, Websites
In case you don’t have enough to read already, I thought I’d bring two more RPG-related columns to your attention. Are you reading these already? Back in September, the inestimable Monte Cook reunited with Wizards of the Coast and took over writing the...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 24, 2011 | Board Games, card games, Creativity, MMOs, RPGs, Social Games, Video Games
Chris Hardwick, he who founded The Nerdist empire (or, if not empire, then duchy) and hosts the likes of the Nerdist podcast and The Talking Dead, has a book coming out called, fittingly, The Nerdist Way. Hardwick’s also an occasional contributor to Wired (a...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 11, 2011 | Design, Musing, Question, RPGs, Websites
Here’s another thing that’s been open in my browser for a while: Mike Birkhead, via Gamasutra, asking “What makes combat fun?” I love reading this kind of article. Birkhead gets into details in this piece, breaking down what combat actually is...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 29, 2011 | Conventions, RPGs
So I finally ran Apocalypse World. It was Thursday night at the Origins Game Fair and our plan to get two tables running simultaneously got pushed back and back and back to a single table running four players, with me as the MC. It went well enough, I think. You know...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 27, 2011 | Conventions, Events, RPGs
It’s my goal to write about #Origins2011 every day this week. This is tricky. How much do you want to hear about a convention that already happened, right? Probably not a lot. I played a lot of compelling games, though, and want to share some of what I’ve...
