Ever get obsessive about a game? Not just “This is the best game of the year” level but spending every last waking moment either playing the game or thinking about playing the game when you can’t be playing the game? This winter break my buddy and I probably played 60 games of the board game […]
Infernal Save Points
In Alio’s rant yesterday about Dante’s Inferno, he brought up the ever-interesting computer RPG topic of save points. If you’re as old as me, you may have computer game memories where the party gets slaughtered, having to restart at the last save point, and then slogging through the same four hours of dungeon to get […]
How To Create A Tale of Suspense
If you’re not following the online comic, Basic Instructions, by Scott Meyer you’re missing out. Each comic is a four panel dialog to illustrate an ironic way to go about doing something. In a recent comic Scott explains how to create a Tale of Suspense. The gist of the joke is how to create a […]
Opportunity Actions: Campaign Builder – Is It Too Soon?
I’m turning something over in my head lately. I watch a lot of news. It’s easy sometimes to fictionalize what we see, if there’s a great story there. I’ll be telling this through my campaign idea.