Game continuity is key.
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 [...]