How Many Players in an RPG

Recently on a forum I frequent, there was a question about how many players is “too many” in an RPG. The context was a player who was hinting he’d like to get in on that sweet, sweet D&D action, into a 5-player game. First, There will *always* be guys who are interested in your game. […]

Before the Ink Dries

Everything has changed, and yet… nothing has. So many secrets…. I vowed not to keep secrets from my unit, so when Tristram asked me about the arcane spell I cast earlier, I hesitated only a moment before explaining the source of the power. I’m still not sure myself how it came about, only that I’ve […]

Cat: In which you play a cat. Or, sometimes, a dog.

In my Sunday RPG group yesterday, we played Cat (Revised and Expanded), by John Wick. It’s a fun, lightweight RPG in which you play a Cat. It has pretty much everything you could ask for in an RPG, in 48 pages: A simple dice-pool mechanic that anyone who can count to 6 can use. A […]