by Will Hindmarch | Feb 17, 2011 | Fan Culture, RPGs, Websites
This was on BoingBoing, so maybe you’ve seen it already. This is a collection of handmade dungeon maps and notes for D&D campaigns, crafted back in the 1980s. Maybe you’ve had this happen yourself. You find a manila folder (or Trapper Keeper or...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 26, 2011 | Fan Culture, RPGs
The missus and I dig the NBC Thursday-night comedy, Community. I dig Dungeons & Dragons. Next week, apparently, they meet: “ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS” 02/03/2011 (08:00PM – 08:30PM) (Thursday) : THE STUDY GROUP TAKES A JOURNEY INTO THE DARK...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 26, 2011 | Fan Culture, RPGs
The missus and I dig the NBC Thursday-night comedy, Community. I dig Dungeons & Dragons. Next week, apparently, they meet: “ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS” 02/03/2011 (08:00PM – 08:30PM) (Thursday) : THE STUDY GROUP TAKES A JOURNEY INTO THE DARK...
by Jeff Tidball | Jan 15, 2011 | Comics, Licensing, Movies, RPGs
Apropos of my earlier post on Steve Long’s licensed games op-ed piece: Roleplaying games are not very easy to adapt to traditional narrative forms like novels and films because the most important thing about traditional narrative forms are their protagonists and...
by Jeff Tidball | Jan 13, 2011 | Business, Design, Licensing, RPGs
The Indie Press Revolution blog posted an op-ed piece by Steve Long about licensed RPGs yesterday. You should read it. Steve argues that in the last decade the tabletop roleplaying hobby as a whole has been creatively diminished by the tendency of publishers to...
by Will Hindmarch | Dec 29, 2010 | ARGs, Board Games, card games, Question, RPGs
2010 is on its way out. You’ve played a lot of games this year. What sticks out? Not the titles—not just the titles—but the big wins and the bad beats. What do you recall from this year’s epic battles, risky bets, sly bargains, and other outré gaming...
