Assassination. No, I’m not talking about the classic college campus game, I’m talking about assassination within the context of tabletop role-playing games. It’s really hard to do well. This is the subject of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival. There’s something fundemental about assassination that doesn’t gel with games. In reality, assassination is just about the […]

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I’m a huge fan of games that have tactical combat. I’ve been playing these types of games since Ultima III, Ogre, and Pool of Radiance. But other than Dragon Age: Origins, I haven’t seen a game with good strategic combat in years. Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics was released four years ago, in 2007. But having […]

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Dungeon’s Master does a monthly series called “RPG Blog Carnival”, and although I generally don’t write about D&D stuff, this month’s topic intrigued me, and I felt compelled to participate. The article asks blog authors to look at a real-life person, living or dead, and re-imagine him or her as a character in an RPG. […]

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I’ve just had a thought. An idea. I have an idea. This site has been langushing for some time. My own writings have been entirely uninspired over the past year, and I’ve often considered shutting this site down. The main reason I haven’t is because I really like the site’s design, the random header and […]

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