Archive for the ‘Memes’ Category
Prompts courtesy of Atlas Games. I have gamed with kids a little bit. I ran a mini-campaign which included a friend’s… 10 year old? I think? It was fine; I played to his needs a bit more than I usually do and his dad helped him on the rare occasions he needed help with dice [...]
Dear Reverb Gamers: nope. I work in computer games, which makes it very easy to be out without consequence. It’s actually a career bonus to be a tabletop gamer, despite the fact that my day job is unrelated to game design. Even before I got into computer games, the Silicon Valley dot-com was a pretty [...]
See here for prompts. I’m going to the old 1999 WotC survey for this one, because I kind of like it when types are developed via research than just out of a fevered gamer brain. (But I’m an Method Actor with a side of Tactician, as one may have guessed from the previous post in [...]
Prompt courtesy of Atlas Games again. “What is it about gaming that you enjoy the most? Why do you game? Is it the adrenaline rush, the social aspect, or something else?” I think it comes down to the fantasizing. When I’m actually gaming, I love roleplaying and immersing and speaking in my character’s voice. When [...]
Prompts courtesy of Atlas Games. I was, I’m not sure. 14? 15? Something like that. We were living up in New Hampshire. There were these family friends, who we met I don’t know how; probably one of those hippie connections we were rich with in those days. Teo was four years older than I was. [...]
Li asks, "What alternate-historical setting would you most like to play in, and why?" She mentions S. M. Stirling's Nantucket…
Li asks, "I've often said that one of the best science-fiction authors whose work you probably aren't reading is Connie…
We all know what Spinal Tap is, right? Good. (I said the Monday Mashups would be sporadic. You thought they…
So yeah, missed this week's mashup too. I was going to try and hit 52 and call it a series…
Well, duh. In the throes of overwrought fandom, what else would I want to mashup but Spider-Man? No superheroes, though,…