Watching The Rain Fall
'Watching The Rain Fall' is the forth installment in a five part series of fiction based on The Nearside Project. Taken as a whole, these five stories are known as "The Thirteenth Hour".
When the Dice Don't Tell the Whole Story
Roleplaying games, like many other games, rely heavily at times on chance. Chance usually takes the form of dice rolls or card draws, and it can make great heroes or great goats. We curse or we exclaim with joy when…
Why Hamsters?
I'd like to start off this week's installment with a little apology. I'm sick. I haven't had any sleep in two nights and I'm typing pretty much on instinct. If you look really hard, you can probably see the sneezes…
Why John Wick Writes RPGs
It's no big secret that John Wick and I have had our differences. More than once, we've come to blows. In fact, I recall one instance when, had not Rob Vaux been willing to douse us both with pepper spray he'd gotten on…
Wingnut Games
What is Battle Cattle?
Y2K's Most Influential People in Gaming for the year 2000!
A sneek peek at the Top 100 most influential people in gaming for the year 2000, as determined by the editors of a new gaming magazine, Games Unplugged .