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Mr. Bistro's Wild Ride

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...

Can D&D 4E Do Grit?

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...

Can D&D 4E Do Grit?

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...

On Drama and Giving a Damn

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...

Turn Down the Lights, Funny Man

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...