Archive | May, 2000

A Place Beyond Shame, Part 6: System of a Clown (part 2 of 2)

Posted on 31 May 2000

With special guest star Gareth-Michael Skarka!

Marooned on the Railroad to Moscow

Posted on 30 May 2000

Fiction set in the TimeLords RPG setting

How To Play The Great Con Game

Posted on 29 May 2000

Seven very important tips on how to have fun at a Gaming Convention.

Diskwars Preview of Doomtown: Rangewars and Star Trek: Red Alert!

Posted on 27 May 2000

The Salt Lake DiskWarriors give us a sneak peek of Doomtown: RangeWars and Star Trek: Red Alert!–new games based on the popular DiskWars game mechanics…with a few twists.

Episode 31: Let’s Get Laid (Laid Out, That Is) Part 2

Posted on 26 May 2000

Not a lot of words this week, but three big pictures. Im crunching in as much editing/advice I can into the pages Ive already written, and I dont have a lot of time for you guys. However, Ill give you what time I do have. Thats how much I love you.

Get ‘Em While They’re Young: Will Fad Culture Hamstring RPGs?

Posted on 25 May 2000

Fads have been the Holy Grails of children’s merchandising for the last half century. They have borne companies aloft to untold heights of profitability… and crushed them under the boot of post-fad indifference.

A Review of Rascals, Varmits, and Critters II: The Book O’ Curses

Posted on 24 May 2000

In this book you’ll find descriptions of several things introduced in earlier material. Examples include the Skinwalker as well as the Automatons of Dr. Darius Hellstromme.

A Review of The Window

Posted on 23 May 2000

A good RPer can pick out any book on the store shelf and build a story in it, while even the most determined min-maxer will have a tricky time blasting his way to omnipotence in something like Call of Cthulhu.

A Review of Hero Wars: Roleplaying in Glorantha

Posted on 22 May 2000

Hero Wars is set at the end of Gloranthas Modern Age. The location featured in the core rules is the Dragon Pass. Located in south central Genertela (Gloranthas northern continent), Dragon Pass is a place where cultures clash and religions collide. This cauldron of politics and aggression will serve as a flash point for the Hero Wars, which will envelop all of Glorantha and change the course of history.

A Place Beyond Shame, Part 5: System of a Clown (part 1 of 2)

Posted on 20 May 2000

We sat on a stoop wearing a mixture of what was formal and what was convenient. Mere hours ago, we had been going about our lives, and now here we were on a cool spring day in Brooklyn at the apartment building where our Uncle George had just recently suffered his last heart attack. George had been a grizzled old guy with no neck and a thick face. Apparently some biological zoning ordinance had relocated every scrap of hair on his head to his ears and eyebrows. It often struck me how much he resembled Darth Vader, in appearance, sound, and coloration, at the end of Return of the Jedi.

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