Saturday, April 22, 2023

BASIC ROLEPLAYING UNIVERSAL GAME ENGINE, A REVIEW OF THE 2023 RERELEASE

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A Few Brief Notes Before We Begin I reviewed Basic Roleplaying (hereafter BRP) pretty extensively back in 2020 . If you are new to the game...
Monday, February 13, 2023

The Ship of Theseus: When Does a New Edition Become a New Game?

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The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the t...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

The "Special Reference Works" of Courtney C. Campbell

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IN HIS OWN 1978 "SPECIAL REFERENCE WORK," The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook , Gary Gygax wrote; Considerable enjo...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

WHY I (ACTUALLY) LIKE SORCERY IN RUNEQUEST ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA, PART THREE

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This is the third in a series of articles. Read the first here and the second here . The average modern man's relationship with nature...
Monday, January 23, 2023

WHY I (ACTUALLY) LIKE SORCERY IN RUNEQUEST ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA, PART TWO

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This is part two of a series. See Part One here. Not A Bad System, Really SO FAR AS MAGIC SYSTEMS GO, the Sorcery rules presented in the thi...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

WHY I (ACTUALLY) LIKE SORCERY IN RUNEQUEST ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA, PART ONE

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THE YEAR IS 1984, and Sorcery--fashionably late--arrives at the party. The first edition of RuneQuest (1978) had introduced us to two types...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

A Few Thoughts on Open Game Licenses

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IF YOU ARE READING THIS, I assume you know the situation. In a nutshell: Wizards of the Coast, owner of the Dungeons & Dragons "br...