This? This is apropros of nothing really. I just was thinking about Freemarket which made me think of new character ideas, which reminded me of another email I had sent out to people with these ideas. So, here are some ideas for characters and MRCZ’s from Freemarket. Yes, I know, you’re not supposed to create [...]

Playing GMless games in general and Fiasco in specific has lead to some evolution in our gaming groups behaviour, especially approaching how stories are created in game.

The following is a striking example of the difference between “traditional” GMing and something coming out of the indie stables. The game is Apocalypse World. The Colonel is the Hardholder, the guy who runs this little bastion of humanity in the mess that the world has become. it’s a big market built out of the [...]

I give up, I really do. What is it about Vincent Baker’s work that turns me in to a giggling fanboy? In general, I have little patience for fanboyism. To me the term evokes a sort of blind and arbitrary ardour for something. A kind of nerdish religious fundamentalism that brooks no critical analysis or [...]

A lot of the “Play” in RPG comes from the use of dice, or some other sort of fate system to discern the outcome of events in game. But learning when to use those mechanics and when to just let things happen can be a very important skill.

A lot of the time, we seem to treat mechanics are the basis of what is or is not possible in a game: if there’s a rule that let’s me do this, then I can do it. But in the end, it’s really the fiction, the story-so-far that tells us what we can or cannot do.