Last week I sat down with +Richard LeBlanc and +David Welborn of New Big Dragon Games Unlimited to discuss, largely, the d30 Sandbox Companion. It’s been #1 on the RPGNow “best seller” list for some weeks in a row, and after +Erik Tenkar and +Tim Shorts raved about it, I decided to check it out. My reiview was decidedly positive. I asked if…
I swear that this blog will never digress into any sort of political stuff that doesn’t directly involve gaming. That’s not what it’s for. But politics and rulers and kings and kingdoms are a staple of gaming, and one of the things one hears a bit is how certain plot devices, like the evil mad…
In the discussion of common pitfalls in GURPS (which was really common pitfalls in RPGs in general, for the most part, some of which applied more directly to GURPS), the topic of metagaming currencies came up. What is a metagaming currency? Well, I’ll pick on GURPS, since I can think of a few: Luck can…