I've been Afraid, now I'm going to tell you about it.

This is more than a day late, but Erik has been bugging me to write more, so here goes... better late than never, eh?

Liz, Piers, Hans, in our kitchen, playing Afraid

Our local indie-gaming group has had a fantastic time running with …

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Twilight Imperium

I played a bit of Twilight Imperium with Steve, Hans and Erik yesterday.

I had fun, but somewhat in spite of the game. Mmmm, that's not fair, I actually liked the game, but I didn't love the game.

It's gorgeous, that's for sure. Approximately 1 gajillion …

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Lawyer Tries 'D&D Defense'

From ICv2:

While the media has occasionally scapegoated adventure gaming(see "Monterey News Story Ties RPGs to Assault") and small time Savonarolas like Jack Chick and "Dr." Thomas Radecki regularly castigate Dungeons & Dragons as dangerous and satanic …

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"First Gamer Research Study Report"

The first report from a grad school research project published by Ohio State University and GAMA has been posted on the Wargamer Website, and it provides interesting analysis of what motivates hobby gamers. Online surveys were collected from roughly …

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"There Oughta Be a Law"

From Monte's blog:

As we get into packing up our stuff in earnest, the most difficult job so far has been packing up the board games. This is no small task in this house, as you can perhaps imagine. Is it really important that some boxes be really long …

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Places to Go, People to Be

(Or: How I Spent My Summer Vacation, volume 2006)

This year, our "big summer vacation" incorporated both our families, the Dublin Irish Festival, GenCon, and both Liz & my high school reunions (we went to different schools - in different …

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Currently Reading: "Everway - Visionary Roleplaying"

Everway is another forgotten game, a casualty of trying to bring innovation to the mainstream market (I could say it was something else, but I'd be lying). Produced by Wizards of the Coast before they bought TSR/D&D, Everway was meant to be a joining …

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Currently Reading: "The Shadow of Yesterday"

The Shadow of Yesterday is pulpy romantic sword-and-sorcery at the end of one world and the beginning of the next. This game melds the best of standard fantasy role-playing and a hard-charging narrative engine. The revised version of this game …

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2006 Diana Jones Award

Per not-so-secret society member John Kovalic:

The Diana Jones award was announced last night, at GenCon.

This year's shortlist was:

• The Gamechef game-design competition
• Irish games convention charity auctions
• Magic the Gathering, 9th edition (Wizards …

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Large-scale combat in narrativist RPGs

In our local Burning Wheel game, I’ve been playing Gerd, the leader of a band of merceneries trying to defend the town from Duke Wilhelm. At GenCon, we played in Luke’s Burning Empires demo, where I was the leader of the Kerrn guerillas fighting …

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