Play Culture One: Do Your Homework
My first core principle happens before you sit down to play the game. The first principle is that you have responsibilities beyond turning up and playing the game. What does this mean? In my opinion,...
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Play Culture Zero: My Four Principles of Good Play
One of the upshots of the explosion in online gaming has been that I have been given a chance to play a lot more than I usually get to do. As a perennial GM,...
Who cares what year it is?
I’ve been thinking about “What year is it?” and why it winds people up? I think it’s not necessarily the specificity of it. It’s that we don’t mark ‘genre’ time in that way, except...
Killing in the Game of…
It was inevitable that the release of the Legends of Vox Machina would ignite a number of internet bonfires, because it seems impossible to write the words ‘Critical Role’ without battle lines being drawn...
Game Culture Six: Talk is Good
I wonder how many issues within gaming groups could be solved if everyone talked to each other? I have a feeling that it would be running well over 75%. Hell, I think if more...