by Jeff Tidball | Aug 3, 2009 | Promotion, RPGs, Websites
You’re aware that BoardGameGeek is the best-in-breed website for information about board games. The incredible thing about BGG is that it doesn’t require the qualifier hobby board games, or adventure board games when you describe it. It’s a site for...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 27, 2009 | Conventions, RPGs, Websites
Want some coverage of the Origins Game Fair, happening right now in Columbus, OH? Look at this great coverage of Monte Cook’s seminar on better GMing, which just happened this week at Origins. It’s excellent — wise, frank, and low on the secret tricks but...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 10, 2009 | Board Games, Fantasy, Musing, Websites, Writing
Seriously, I could write a book on those Thief games. Yesterday, in issue 205: Parting the Digital Sea, The Escapist published my all-too-short article, “Robbing Gods,” which just scratches the surface of the game’s world-building by looking at how...
by Will Hindmarch | May 31, 2009 | Musing, RPGs, Websites
Once it’s finally debuted, will Google Wave be the best way to play pen-and-paper RPGs online? Is this the ubiquitous, dynamic, app-driven platform we’ve been waiting for? With my fingers crossed, I’m hoping for apps that bring dice and statistics...
by Will Hindmarch | May 27, 2009 | Video Games, Websites
My Brute is a simple online fighting game from Motion Twin, the self-described “leading provider of online games for the French-speaking public.” Being neither French-speaking nor public, I had never heard of them before writer and game designer Chuck...
by Will Hindmarch | Apr 23, 2009 | Design, Fantasy, MMOs, Promotion, RPGs, Video Games, Websites
Jeff reminds me that I never mentioned, here, an article of mine that The Escapist published an issue or so ago: Bow Before the Worm-Slayer. The issue’s about achievements in games — or more accurately, achievement systems. For me, it was largely an academic...
