by Will Hindmarch | Jun 18, 2011 | ARGs, awards, Board Games, Books, card games, Dice, Events, Fan Culture, MMOs, RPGs, Video Games
You have a single prize to award to one noun — person, place, thing, or event — in recognition of excellence in gaming for the previous year, from July 2010 to July 2011. This is a prize of celebration and recognition only. No trophy, no money, no stickers, no medals....
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 15, 2011 | Board Games, Books, Fan Culture, RPGs
The short list for this year’s Diana Jones Award has been revealed and, as is ordinary for these extraordinary awards, it’s a wonderful list. I got it from Robin D. Laws’ livejournal, but Matt Forbeck has the list all linked up: Diana Jones Award...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 11, 2011 | Design, RPGs, Websites
Just a quick note tonight. If you haven’t yet read it, you might well find something provocative in Ben Lehman’s newest guest-post at Vincent Baker’s blog: Rules and Their Functions. Besides being a thoughtful read on its own, it has got a great...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 3, 2011 | Design, RPGs
Did you read these posts? Over on his blog, Ryan Macklin wrote about what he calls use-whenever stats and why they don’t quite work for him: Give me a situation and a generic approach, and I’ll make them fit. Which really means I have these three stats: d10 Be a...
by Will Hindmarch | May 23, 2011 | Books, Question, RPGs
What do you look for in RPG books describing or detailing historical periods of play? Graham Walmsley asks over at the Story Games forums, and I thought I’d echo the question here, to get some more takes on the subject. What do you like to see? What do you need...
by Will Hindmarch | May 14, 2011 | Design, RPGs
Here’s something I found in the drafts folder that I should’ve posted eons ago. Over on Story Games, I once clarified a bit of foggy thinking that I’d wandered into last year, surrounding the roleplaying game, Apocalypse World (about which I have...
