Opportunities Do Not Stop Coming
Years ago, I said something to a dear friend of mine that moved her. She was worried about missing an opportunity due to a health problem, and that would be the only such opportunity she would ever have. We talked, and she wrote down what I said onto a post-it and put it on her
On the Social Component of Rules
A bit ago, I had someone tell me that they threw out Bonds in Mythender because they didn’t see it as having any value in a one-shot environment[1],
Symphony: In Nomine *World
Much as with Mage: the Ascension and other 90s games, many of us have a deep love of Steve Jackson Games’s In Nomine. Unlike Mage, IN isn’t getting a
The Multitude of Zones, Part 1
Zones are one of the more arcane elements in Fate. It’s a tool we use for many different things, but we don’t really talk much about what it
Making Co-Creation Work
Last year, I wrote about the perils of coauthor projects. Of course, I keep getting involved in them, one of the latest ones being the Mage: the Ascension lovefest we’re doing called Project Paradigm. We stalled for a bit, until I remembered a couple tenets of doing co-creator projects: First, Co-Creation is a Dance …in that
Writing is Exorcism
Ideas pop into our heads all the time. They haunt us, chew at us, make demands of our psyches. They are demons, sure as not, but there is a way to exorcise them. Write. Writing isn’t a promise or a commitment. When you take out a piece of paper to write a random, wacky idea
