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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

Image courtesy of Pixabay. For years, my game room sat as a quiet monument to a dream: a dedicated space where I could play Dungeons &...

The story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 is a tragedy of American history: a cautionary tale of class bias, social anxiety, and...

Well, we were talking about Blades, so it seemed like a salient point. I'll also point out that if other games were already doing all...

Blades doesn't have soft and hard moves, that's PbtA.

Yeah.... Its always weird to read comments on the internet (often by people who clearly have no interest in playing something but are...

You've been reading this thread, right?

Hmm. Well I think your immersionst take is clear, but in this case it doesn't carry any water. There's nothing meta about clocks - they...

Sure. I was more talking about the nuances of RPG design that have rather a lot to say about how we get from A to B.

This seems to miss rather a lot of specific design goals that go into designing RPGs. I mean it's not wrong but I don't think it really...

No, they are two very different things. I'm not really concerned with how yoiks deploy the term GM fiat all willy-nilly in threads about...

Yep. The strength of the BitD approach, to me, is that everything is negotiated out in the open. The GM can't leverage "the module" or...

It could be ballistic if you throw it hard enough at someone.

PvP is very game dependent. In D&D, PvP is very uncommon and it goes against spirit of the game, since it's party based game. On the...