One of my earliest memories is from preschool. I sat in a room with my classmates, and we had just been given grape juice. I watched my classmates drink, and noticed they were all drinking the same way. In other words, they touched the near side of the rim of the cup to their lips,…
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Frequent readers will know that Intwischa’s gamers have transitioned from playing 4e, to Shadowrun, to FATE, to Swords and Wizardry, and most recently to Dresden Files RPG (based on FATE). (I’m sure most of you have memorized this.) You’ve also no doubt heard us talking about cabin trips, and one is coming up in August,…
Gamers love to tell stories of games past. If you get a group of us together, it can sometimes be more difficult to stop the swapping of gaming stories. Much like books and movies, the stories we play out leave behind moments that stick in our heads for years to come. What I’ve long wondered,…
Sometimes you have months to plan an epic adventure for a singular gaming weekend. And other times, you just want to hack and slash. Or maybe you just need to whip up adventure for your party, and you enjoy the surprise of what’ll attack them next as much as they will! Check out this link…
“Steal This Idea” is an ongoing series in which an element from the media is examined for use in games. These articles will provide a basic description of the scene in which the element occurs is necessary to introduce the idea for gaming, and hooks to use that idea in various kinds of RPGs. We…
One of the things I value greatly about role-playing games is the emotional satisfaction I get from the experience. Building up a new storyline that’ll run as our next Cabin Trip adventure fills me with a sense of accomplishment. Watching that story unfold, and seeing key plot points revealed, makes me well up with pride….
When I was a kid, the Game Genie video game add-on hit the markets. If you don’t remember this product, it was a “cheat aid” for games that took the form of a cartridge that you plugged another cartridge into. When you’d boot your console, the first thing you’d get was a “Game Genie” screen…
I recently sat through a business meeting that made an innovative use of sticky notes. Essentially, ideas were generated and written on stickies by the people in the meeting, and these were stuck to a wall. Later, they were grouped, then prioritized by physically moving the notes up and down. I’ve used this process at…
With Charlie’s recent mention of Jungian Archetypes, I thought I’d put the couple psychology classes I had in college to use. Unfortunately, it appears that I sold back all my old text books. Most of this comes to you through a combination of dusty memory, and the wonders of Google. This generator will allow you…
Some of you may be excited that today marks the premiere of the seventh and final installment of the “Harry Potter” movie franchise. To be quite honest, I’m pretty excited myself. This disclosure may be surprising to regular readers, who may recall that last week about this time I kind of let “Harry Potter” have…