When it comes to matters of religion, I tend to see things a lot like that flaxen-haired fantasy heroine Goldilocks : There’s too much, not enough, and juuuuust right. Faith and the divine can be a very powerful and positive force, when approached healthily. However, it also has an almost proportionate potential to injure and divide. While…
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Rolling dice is fun, there is no doubt about that. At our gaming table, I’m “that guy” with a dice-bag made of the bottom half of a pair of cutoff jeans from when I was in 5th grade. It contains over 1 pound of dice, including a thirty- and hundred-sider. I remember with glee both…
My name is Charlie. I’m a mechanoholic. It’s true. My disease compels me to pursue the best mechanical benefit in any situation, regardless of whether my character would actually do the thing or not. I can resist mechanics-driven impulses when playing games like FATE or old-school D&D knockoffs, but when I start playing 4E, all fiddly…
During the initial discussions about creating Intwischa, Chase, Bryan, Matt and I spent time looking at other gaming blogs to get a feel for what is out there. There is a lot of good stuff–I’m intentionally avoiding name-dropping right now, because my point is not the good stuff. My point is the bad stuff, much…
This is the second post in our series on The Value of Systems. Each post will look at a different RPG system and evaluate it based on what it does well, what it doesn’t intend to do, and possible tweaks to extend the system to cover what it doesn’t intend to do. We are not…
I think it only fair to warn you before we go any further: My review of anything with Dark Sun in the title will read very much like a review your parents might have written about your performance as “Munchkin #2” in your fifth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz. The Dark Sun Campaign setting…
I like bourbon. I have 3 bottles in my liquor cabinet right now–two different bottles that are over 10 years old and can be sipped neat without cringing, and a huge jug of white-label Jim Beam. Conventional wisdom might state that I drink the Beam when I can’t taste the difference any more, but with…