Gaming is not in the blood, it's in the dice!
So it’s very early in the morning again as I’ve been up all night observing and doing homework for my Masters program. Again I apologize for any incoherence due to lack of sleep. Since I’m a little too tired to focus on one of the more complex topics I’ve been planning to blog about, I [...]
It’s 2:15 am and I’m up running a telescope observing a potential transiting extrasolar planet. Actually I’m observing my second target of the night and the transit is supposedly starting even as I type this line. I’ve been up since 4am yesterday and in the intervening 22 hours have written an 11-page paper for one [...]
My kids have been playing through the Volturnus series of modules in Star Frontiers. (Warning: Spoilers. If you’ve never played these modules and think that you will some day, the following gives away part of the story. But they’ve been published for 30+ years so you’ve probably already played them or at least read them [...]
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is on The Combat Experience and is being hosted by the RPG Alchemy blog. As I was thinking about what to write I fell to musing on the use of initiative in RPG combat. My primary gaming experience covers three games: RuneQuest, Star Frontiers, and Powers & Perils (did anyone [...]