Pitching Your Own Tent

The Ease of Making Your Own Campaign Setting I wanted to address a misunderstanding I see among people running fantasy roleplaying games.  Many people, especially people new to game mastering, have this idea that creating their own world for the games they want to run is difficult.  They look at Read more

Appearance on MageThePodcast

I was invited by Joseph Aleo to talk about Mage: The Ascension on Mage: The Podcast today.  Mage has always been my favorite roleplaying game and it was great to have a chance to talk about some of the game terms.  Mage: The Podcast is a new podcast with only Read more

Disneyland vs. Immersive Play

If given the choice of stepping into a magical medieval world for a few hours and walking around would you do it? Would you walk down a village street, see the fey in their forest circle, watch a wizard call forth mystic powers? Or would you be content to take Read more

Focused Game vs. Toolbox

One distinction for roleplaying games I don’t hear discussed is toolbox games vs. focused games. There is so little discussion that I had to invent the terms to discuss them with my friends. Most games are focused games. They have one setting detailed in the rule book where the game’s Read more