Category: RPG

You Get What You Put In, As Long as You’re Careful Who You Let In – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 21

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: Which RPG does the most with the fewest words? I don’t know the definitive answer to that, though I’ve said earlier in this series that I admire the simplicity and clarity of Fiasco, and that I have to give credit to Mentzer, whose two slim manuals inthe D&D Basic red box launched millions of kids into the hobby of RPGing. I think, though, I’m going to take an alternate question, because I’m pretty far behind on how things have developed in recent …

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Out Of Print Isn’t Out of Reach (Except When It Is) – #RPGaDay, Day 20

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: What’s the best source for out-of-print RPGs? Man, would this answer be different if I were in North America. My answer, though, depends mostly on the fact I’m in South Korea right now. 

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Well Wrought – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 19

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: Which RPG features the best writing? Er, define best? Also, confession time.

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In the Hotseat – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 18

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: Which RPG have you played the most in your life? Taken straight, this is not the most interesting question. My answer is the same as that of many others, I’m guessing: some flavor of D&D.  Or is it?  Technically, I barely “played” any D&D (as a player) at all. I count maybe six sessions spent as a player, divided between the friend who introduced me to the game, a DM I knew in middle school, and someone I knew in undergrad. I played far more …

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The Ones I’ve Never Taken Out to Dance (RPGaDay 2017, Day 17)

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  August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: Which RPG have you owned the longest but not played? Today’s answer will be short, because, well: it’s an easy answer:  Until I left Canada, the game I’d owned the longest but never played was Amazing Engine. I had a couple of books for the system—For Faerie, Queen, and Country (which was a neat book in itself) and Kromosome, which was an alright cool cyberpunky type game setting book. Both were designed to use the Amazing Engine game system, which I’ve …

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