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Sensor Sweep: Maal Dweb, Beastmaster, Federation & Empire, and John Carter RPG
Monday , 15, January 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsWriters (DMR Books): “This date marks the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Clark Ashton Smith. Readers of this site should require no introduction, as Smith was one of the “big three” writers for Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft. It only seems appropriate that we should honor this […]
Bradford C. Walker on Excessive Mechanics in RPGs
Tuesday , 11, April 2017 Tabletop Games 32 CommentsOver at Walker’s Retreat, Bradford Walker calls out a trend away from role-playing towards a more rules-oriented style of play he characterizes as “piloting the mech”: As this phenomenon accelerated, more and more people abandoned TRPGs for videogame counterparts because videogames did all of the mechanical operations better, faster, and with better visualization…. Meanwhile, the real […]
Readers familiar with the Pulp Revolution have certainly by now heard that with the death of the pulps, many genres fell out of favor. Hero pulps, sword and sorcery, and planetary romance have all declined from the heyday of the 1930s, often replaced entirely by other expressions of fantasy and science fiction. Yet as we […]
Morale, Emotion, and a Defense of Limiting Player Autonomy
Thursday , 12, January 2017 Tabletop Games 4 CommentsLet me start by making a, perhaps, controversial statement: player autonomy should be limited and a lot of potential for fun resides in player limitation. It is often stated as a clear neophyte mistake for a Dungeon Master to tell players what their characters do. I agree with this as a general principal but, let’s […]