by Jeff Tidball | Oct 16, 2008 | Board Games, Sci Fi, Story
Fortress: Ameritrash recently posted the best session report of a board game ever, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (a Cylon), an actual play report of the recently released Battlestar Galactica board game. I defy you to read that narrative and not wish that you were...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 13, 2008 | Fantasy, RPGs, Story
The question has come up on a few forums since Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition debuted: Can it do a gritty, grim style of fantasy adventure? Can it handle adaptations to something less overtly heroic and colorful than the D&D world implied by the power...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 13, 2008 | Fantasy, RPGs, Story
The question has come up on a few forums since Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition debuted: Can it do a gritty, grim style of fantasy adventure? Can it handle adaptations to something less overtly heroic and colorful than the D&D world implied by the power...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 9, 2008 | Fantasy, RPGs, Story, Will's Thesis
In my previous post, I looked at my first real session of play of D&D’s 4th Edition. At the end of that post, I put up a graph comparing the good times being had by us, the players, versus the supposed dramatic arc of the story unfolding through play. This...
by Jeff Tidball | Jun 6, 2008 | Musing, RPGs, Story
I’ll wager that this has happened to you: You were watching a film in a theater when the film snapped, the lights came on, and you sat around — annoyed — for 15 minutes while the projectionist got all the spilled film back onto the platter, taped the broken ends...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 3, 2008 | Accessories, Fantasy, Miniatures, RPGs, Story, Will's Thesis
Like a lot of people eager to get an early taste of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition (D&D 4E), I picked up the adventure/quick-start kit Keep on the Shadowfell. Like a lot of people, I checked in on other people’s progress in the adventure by perusing...
