Search results

nedjer, I love the idea of a RPG system designed to leave behind an intriguing set of symbols as a by-product of play! Some of my favorite pieces from the Doomslangers show are those where they preserve evidence of being used in a game, like the record of hit points lost in this one.

I'm moderating a panel on the interactions between Dungeons & Dragons in Contemporary Art, and am hoping to get some suggestions for stuff that would be interesting to explore with a bunch of artists whose work is exhibited in galleries & informed by their experience playing RPGs. Some of the...

Gaming with new players, and with old players I haven't met before, is fun! Some things I do that expose me to new faces: - play and GM with New York Red Box, which is always open to drop-ins and meets in public - teach a D&D afterschool program for kids 8-11 and donate a D&D birthday party...

I second Anonycon - it was a great experience & I'm looking forward to doing it again. I also heartily recommend GaryCon. A really great convention - if I could only do four days of convention a year, I'd miss some of Gen Con for this. PrinceCon is unique: Princecon is a 46-hour role-playing...

I'm writing an article for the Escapist's Issue 271: The Red Box Diaries, "How a decades-long love affair with Dungeons & Dragons is reshaping the industry." (Here's a link to my previous piece for them, "D&D is the Apocalypse".) As part of that, I'd like to try to sketch a sense of how popular...

I've had great experiences meeting gamers in Poland and Finland while traveling overseas. I highly recommend registering and posting at some of the local gaming forums of the countries you'll be visiting. You speak more languages than I do (with my low Int score and all), but I'd recommend...

Ben Robbins of the Ars Ludi blog has passed the word that Major David Wesely will be at Gen Con this year, mostly at the National Security Decision Making Game but willing to run the original Braunstein scenario for interested players. Links from that post detail the history of Braunstein and...

When I was visiting Finland last year I used the Lamentations of the Flame Princess blog to find gamers to play with in real life, and am hoping to do so again via Cyclopeatron's blog while in San Diego this summer. Forums are good for that too - I'm hoping to use a Polish one to find a game in...

As I was saying in the 4E Discussion thread, Play Unsafe is a great resource for roleplaying in general, not restricted to D&D or 4E. It was recommended to me when I was asking folks I knew: "There are lots of books of advice for GMs; where do you find good advice for players?" I think that's a...

I'm eagerly awaiting my contributor's copies so I can give one to the soon-to-be-11-year-old whose family won the D&D birthday party I donated to my son's school auction. If my own "must play Advanced D&D because who wants to be Basic" attitude at this age is any indication, these are not kids...

I post to The Mule Abides, a collaborative blog of the New York Red Box gaming group I'm part of. I find this to have been an excellent way to get into & stay involved with blogging; the fact that there are others posting means it gets updated more often*, because you're gaming together you have...

I had the pleasure of writing some of those sections and am looking forward to getting my contributor's copy to read the rest! Glad it was helpful and enjoyable for you, Kitesh. Another good player's guide for roleplaying in general is Graham Walmsley's Play Unsafe, which was recommended to me...

I think this is an awesome idea and am planning an afterschool RPG program for younger kids. I don't see the virtue of using more than one well-chosen RPG system. That sounds like a higher level class, for people who know basically what a tabletop RPG is and are ready to appreciate the...

Awesome, look forward to seeing you again Piratecat! Mark, I'm still working on the details of how I'll get out there. Option 1 is taking the train to visit a friend in CT, staying over there on Fri, and then driving out together. If that doesn't pan out, option 2 will be renting a car and...

I plan to attend, and submitted an OD&D event - Jaquays' "Night of the Walking Wet". I'm thinking I might run it in all three slots, with new players entering each time to join those who'd already gone through one run. At Gary Con we played all night and barely scratched the surface of this...

I was in regular Ars Magica campaigns in Chicago and LA from '94 to '98 or so and had a great time with it. The fact that Ars Magica co-author Jonathan Tweet was one of the 3E design team was a big part of why I got back into D&D after a long time away. Some things I think you could usefully...

Since we're both New Yorkers I met with Johnny last year to share my experiences with Otherworld Excursions. I found him to be quite serious but not always realistic, which was certainly the case when I started out too. In my experience, hunting for clients was certainly the major hurdle to...

Becky Thomas's Roleplay Workshop is the biggest and most successful commercial youth RPG program. There are also some in Israel, I hear, and if you sort through the many pages of the Professional GM thread there are some others mentioned. One of my formative gaming experiences was with a...

I think that being published in the RPG field - or getting props from Piratecat (thanks, dude!) - are useful in making a pitch to existing gamers. (Note that Wik bears out my prediction upthread that Pcat is someone who could successfully make that pitch!) The skills involved in writing for...

As a player in the Glantri campaign (1981 Red Box), my PC dies slightly less often than once per session: sometimes other PCs die too, and occasionally no one dies.