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This is pretty much how I feel about GURPS. I have a lot of great memories of it, I still have the warm fuzzies for Steve Jackson Games, and it's great at what it does, but what it does isn't as popular as it was thirty-five years ago. Who knows? Maybe in a few years games like GURPS will...

I honestly wonder sometimes how gamers ever manage to communicate.

A revised edition so soon? 4th edition only came out 21 years ago!

CPM reared his stinky head at a game day at my FLGS earlier this year. But instead of smelling like body odor he mostly reeked of tobacco and marijuana to an overpowering degree. In my years going to my local game days, it's the first time I ran into that situation. I was pleasantly surprised...

Even when I was younger, I never attended cons on a regular basis, and before this last weekend, the last con I had attended was the final Roc*Kon here in Little Rock way back in 2004. Last year I made it part of my New Year's resolution to go to a con this year and I settled on Gamehole Con in...

I tend to find getting into the nitty gritty of genre classification to be non-productive and find it's generally better to have a broad tent approach. If you want to call it a fantasy western with a sci-fi aesthetic, okay, but that sure sounds like a fancy way of saying it's science fiction to...

I really don't think it has. At least among gamers, while there are plenty of different types of roleplaying games, I don't think anyone is at all confused about what a roleplaying game is. If I tell Bob that Vaesen is a roleplaying game he'll know what that means even if he doesn't know what...

Sure. Sometimes, when playing Star Fleet Battles, if I were a Klingon, I might tell my Federation opponents to leave as this sector of space clearly belongs to the mighty Klingon Empire. When playing Power Grid, a board game where you attempt to power cities using plants that burn coal, oil...

Trying to pick the five best science fiction movies is a Herculean task. I can't just limit this to what I like the best, so instead I'll have to select the movies that are culturally significant or influential on other movies. Blade Runner (1982): This movie defined the look of a...

It's pretty much how I run 5E. My players are responsible for knowing and keeping track of what their characters can do. I have enough on my plate running the rest of the game. I didn't play any Warden's March but some friends of mine did and had a blast. Maybe we'll see it spread as an...

That's probably part of it. I think the subject matter was also an untapped market. When I was that age, a lot of the girls I knew had devoured all of Rice's vampire books whereas I pretty much gave up after Lestat. Like D&D, I think the Vampire folks managed to drill in the right spot at the...

You’ve never seen me bowl. B-) I’m not sure how intimate most RPGs are. Am I playing a Wizard because it says something about my psyche or am I just tired of Barbarians? As with most social activities, you’re going to learn about the people you interact with and they you. It’s just...

I was 15 when the 1st edition of VtM was released which was a long, long time ago and my perspective is only my own. Vampire felt like something very different when it was released in 1991. Like I said, my perspective was my own, but everything about the game seemed sophisticated and adult...

They’ve got a nice memorial to him and others at Game Hole Con in Wisconsin this year.

I’m one of those people who never dated within my immediate circle of friends. That means no gamers. I’ve always dated outside of the people regularly in orbit. I stopped dating altogether when I got married.

Something always bothered me about the stereotypical gamer as someone who was socially awkward. Those gamers exist of course, but given the very social nature of role playing games, I've found them to be few and far between. I've always thought TTRPGs were beneficial in other ways such as...

My FLGS holds a game day each quarter, charging $10 for a seat at the game. The player gets to keep $5 of that in store credit and their other $5 goes to the GM as their store credit. I might rack up $20-25 if I run a game, though it's not like the credit is what motivates me. It's noisy...

I read Eye of the World when it was first released in 1990. It was a purchase I made for my sister's birthday, but she had no interest in it and I went ahead and bit the bullet. I enjoyed the characters, with Mat being my favorite, the setting, and the general plot of the first book. I really...

:: Sniffs derisively and tugs at braid ::

This is a rare shot of my miniatures out in the wild enjoying some play time.