There has been a gaming meme going around recently started with a post that listed one person’s idea of what games all RPGers should experience at least once. I have no idea where the original post came from, but it has been reposted (word for word) on numerous blogs and sites (you can see it […]

An unfortunate side-effect of having a new job is the amount of energy and work it takes up. Even when it’s not a new job, but your long standing one, it can take up a lot o time and energy. Add the other things in your life that you have to take care, especially if […]

How often do you hear some game book or gamer expound upon the idea of gaming being fun, as in that’s the whole point. To have fun. Gaming is “supposed to be fun.” While I understand that this is why a lot of people choose to play RPGs, does it have to be the point? […]

For the last several years there has been this growing popular trend in the gaming community that has been dubbed Story Gaming. Now some argue that all RPGs are actually story games, but we are not going to touch on this argument. What we are talking about are all the games that claim to be […]

Because of recent articles and things I have been looking up I have been thinking about the state of the RPG industry and what its future holds. As years go by I watch the market get older and fewer and fewer new kids coming into the hobby. This is not a good way for something […]

A lot of discussion has been done among gamers (mostly in the online communities, starting in the fringes) in recent years about this GSN theory, and I have mostly stayed out of it because I don’t frequent most of those communities (which is a rant for another time). It was just brought up and mentioned […]