The Bloodless Coop
Something +Paul Beakley said about genre in rpgs made me think: People ask questions like: What system could I use to play Silent Hill? One answer is ‘anything the GM (or players) is familiar with and won’t get in the way’ – a solution often offered by both traditional and DIY circles. ‘Anything’ in this case …
Obeying the same need for meaning, modern thinkers look to numbers for signs that show the emergence of a world founded on rational and moral principles. They believe that improvement in ethics and politics is incremental and accretive: one advance is followed by another in a process that stabilises and strengthens the advances that have …
I’m seeing a lot of conversations about production of art and games that uses the term gatekeeping, eg when someone gives an opinion that one way of doing things is less good than another. It’s making me really question the worth of the term. Gatekeeper seemed like a really good phrase to use in a …
You know that thing where you go out for a run and you come back with a goat? That. Found her loose up on a mountain path; she’s clearly not wild (see the collar and tags) but it proved impossible to find anyone who knew who the owner could be, so we took her home …
So I was doodling with this last week and here it is for #awesomegamerday – a mini story about fauna (& flora) and a poison fit for most fantasy contexts. Add your own mechanics. The Steward’s Tale A beehive should last forever. Each queen is born, not alone, but with a sibling, its steward. She …
My piece for the Jewish Quarterly has just gone online along with others about the Jewish conference (and conferencing approach) Limmud.
The New York Times has just done a pretty massive feature on my friend Paul Kingsnorth and specifically on the project he and (my other friend) Dougald Hine began as a response to ecological and civilisational collapse. It’s a project that I’ve been intimately involved in, as a co-architect of the ritual component of the …
I took my mum to the theatre yesterday and this happened: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25458009 We were physically untouched by the event but did see it unfold right in front of us, as we were sitting in the top back of the venue. Obviously there are consequences of witnessing extreme events. Many people were crying or shaking as …
“Thrasher highlights that many of the biggest donors to the Human Rights Campaign, the multi-million dollar nonprofit that receives the bulk of donations for LGBT issues, are drone manufacturers. These donors profit off of the United States’ use of drones to kill civilians, including children, with little oversight or accountability. Drone manufacturers are far from the only …
Shelving away a bunch of character sheets from the dungeon crawl we had in spare evening in India. I have quite a few character sheets from the last few years that I’ve hung onto. It makes me think of two things: Firstly, I’d like it if more games that are aimed at one-shots did away …