A brief entry in Gwenn’s journal. I woke up this morning with a splitting headache and a night full of dreams of blood and fire. Ilyria haunted my dreams. The twisted corpses at the circle of fire… what horror has caused that? It’s as if my memory wants me to recall the dangers we’ve faced, […]
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 […]
Valor
Discretion is the better part of valor. The words came, unbidden, to my mind as our horses charged through the underbrush. Hoping they wouldn’t land on a sink hole or twist an ankle. I made a mistake, dropping our guard, even for an hour, even to just play around. “Anything you can do to surprise […]