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Essays, reviews, and forum conversations from the early days of role-playing online. The games we played. The ideas we argued over. The community we built.
Contrary to what the title suggests, this has nothing to do with jiggly camera work or spooky witches. The Swords Against Sorcery project is an attempt to create a simple set of miniatures rules that you can play when…
Remember when I told you it wasn't done until the Printer Lady sang? She ain't singing. In fact, she's still in her dressing room warming up.
A review of Stafford's new role-playing game, Hero Wars, must take role-playing history into account. Stafford began to write and develop a mythic fantasy world called Glorantha back in the 1960s,…
I think my earlier problems with D&D stem not with the game itself but with the miasma of nerd-taint surrounding it. Too-fat or too-skinny teenage kids with bad haircuts sitting down in their parents…