Lost Narrative: Prologue

Over the next couple of weeks, I plan on writing a series that explores the narrative ins and outs of the various fictional media I study.  I’ll mostly be focusing on video games, but I’ll be extending articles to comic books and table top games as well.  While I will be comparing and contrasting these [...]

Pirate game starts back up this weekend

I mentioned it last week, but I’m glad be going back to the Pirate D&D game.  I’ve decided to start things off with a dungeon, a nice one I came up with for a kid over at the GameFAQs Pen and Paper RPG board.  Any of my readers who thinks they’re going to get an [...]

More Tabletop Talk

I’m finishing my D&D campaign tomorrow night.  The entire attempt was to explore one of the countries, a Japan expy of sorts, and make something of it.  I think we did a good job, but the whole campaign has kind of been a bust.  Mostly due to poor planning, and bit of not caring, on [...]

Tabletop Speculation

Apparently, they want to make the already damn near impossible on easy Seth even harder. Fuck Capcom. This essay is probably best ignored.  I’m tired, sick and hungry and not thinking straight. A couple of days ago, I started thinking about my Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting, Arcia.  I’ve talked about it a couple of [...]

Inspiration part II

Continuing from Friday, I meant to continue  writing on Monday, but it turned into one on of those days.  Last night, after I finally finished the paper, I picked up Uncharted 2.  Obviously, I’d heard good things about the game, but I haven’t had time to play it.  I was a big fan of the [...]

Inspiration part I

A few weeks before I started this blog, I was reading the blog of a guy who posts at a message board I also go to. In it, he listed off the things that inspired him. It was done as one of those “suggested reading” that pop up in some roleplaying books. I was going [...]

Old Thoughts

A couple of years ago, I was designing, on paper during class, my ideal RPG.  I called it Runestone: the Fallen.  It grew out of a Shining Force-esque game I was trying to make on RPG Maker in high school, but gave up on.  I picked back up on the idea after playing Radiata Stories, [...]

Calling the Old Ones Out

Cthulhu was a pansy. That’s right, you heard me, Cthulhu was nothing but a damn pansy.  The dude was beaten by a power plant and, what, a boat?  What kind of Eldritch Abomination gets beaten by that?  Sure, I love to punch out every single one I see but I’d like for my unknowable, ultimately [...]

First Shadowrun game

I’m running my first Shadowrun game tonight.  Adam, John, Josh and a new guy are playing.  Corban might show up next week.  We’ve got a magician and a physical adept.  The mage is a con-man and the physical adept is sort of a gun-for-hire.  The guys worked on a run a few years back where [...]

Role Playing Thoughts

Sorry I missed yesterday.  I’ve had a rough week and I’m pretty tired.  I’m probably just going to spend most of this time rambling. My setting in D&D is extremely varied and I built it this way so my players could do something different each campaign.  One game could be about sky pirates raging against [...]