Hi folks,
I’ve been pretty sick for about a month off and on due to strep. That’s why this blog’s been silent. What’s going on?
Aeternal Legends: It’s available in print and PDF, still. Stew and I are slowly talking about some cool stuff to come, but we’re both pretty busy. Why don’t you buy that sonofabitch?
Knights [...]
I was going through some old hard drives with an IDE/SATA to USB converter (thanks to Stew and others for advice on this) and the feel of it — seeing/hearing/feeling a chunk of weighty metal rev up thanks to the most trivial hardware hacking you could possibly do — gave me an idea:
Distribute a retro [...]
Between the CCP/White Wolf announcement and the obvious rise of e-publishing as a vital component in the industry it’s time to ask: What should electronically delivered tabletop RPGs look like?
The Current Formula
Electronic implementation is currently a user-organized exploit of current cheap technologies. You could express it this way:
Hardware + PDF + Native Applications + Web [...]
James Mishler thinks he knows where tabletop RPGs are going. So do a whole bunch of people. Nobody’s shy about holding forth on the One Truth. Or another One Truth. Whatever; there can only be one. The tabletop hobby will definitely collapse, or it will live forever. Everyone will definitely play MMORPGs instead, or switch [...]
Aspergers and other high-functioning points on the autistic spectrum are associated with nerdy pursuits, but that’s not the point of this post. That’s usually slung around as pop psychology (which this post can be accused of – that’s pretty much what it is) and insults. I want to say this: Online communities can be level [...]
With the Venice Chronicles Beta out, I thought I’d talk a bit about how it got put together. I’m oing to start with a chat about the online medium.
Those of who’ve been following my thoughts on RPGs know that I think that online roleplaying represent an important “parallel” hobby. People are taking roleplaying and running [...]
Digital Service Combines Roleplaying and Next-Generation Social Networks, Begins Open Beta
Mob United Media has completed the first stage of content creation and development for Inter-Canel’s Venice Chronicles: the first application to integrate roleplaying and social networking.
Our story is set in a continuous Masquerade, incorporating inspiration from the classic La Serenissima period, when Venice [...]
This is the cutting edge of DIY roleplaying, whether you would personally enjoy it or not.
So what are you going to do?
Selected quotes:
“Sorry, we do not accept original characters.”
“A BLEACH/NARUTO/YUYUHAKUSHO Role-play community based on the movie Fight Club.
Accepting members now.”
“Yeah, I said it. Ninja Car chases.”