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Game Design by Example: Making an Idea into More

May 27, 2016 by theothertracy

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“I have this great idea for a game.” In creative circles, it’s a phrase that gets joked about because it’s often followed by some variation on “…and you should make it for me.”

Filed Under: Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: demon hunters, game design, game design by example, valkyries

Magic Patents, Trolls, Scabs, and Open Source Spells

May 24, 2016 by multiplexer

Spells have a special problem: they’re information. Spells are knowledge which, when learned, perform a specified effect.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, open source spells, spellcasting, spells, wizards

Review: “Captain America: Civil War”

May 12, 2016 by The Main Event

I thoroughly enjoyed Captain America: Civil War, but watching it with my wife, I was struck by a few major compromises the film made.

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: captain america, captain america: civil war, marvel, mcu

Corporate Contracts in the Far-Off Future Dystopia

May 9, 2016 by multiplexer

Violence makes things messy and inconvenient. Corporations like things neat and convenient. And bureaucratic.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: economics, gaming, shadowrun

The Game Behind My Serial Novel

May 5, 2016 by The Main Event

Taken on its face, football is a bad game. It takes roughly 3 hours to complete only 11 minutes of actual football. If you were forced to play games with such unfavorable numbers, the equivalent would be an eight player game of Talisman.

Filed Under: Featured, Pain of Publication, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: football, game on, the great game

Game Design by Example: Introduction

April 29, 2016 by theothertracy

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When I started designing games 4-5 years ago, I used to post all of my designs in public as I was working on them. As my life got busier, I started doing that less and less. I’ve recently realized that I need to do it more.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: game design, game design by example, valkyries

Magic: the Gathering Officially Comes to D&D

April 27, 2016 by Dave

For years, gamers have wondered why two of the biggest fantasy brands in the world, Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, couldn’t come together, especially since they’re both made in the same building.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, D&D 5e, eldrazi, magic the gathering, mtg, zendikar

Surviving

April 27, 2016 by Chris Sims

Survival mode pumps Fallout 4’s feel up to the right notch, adding a little something I missed without quite knowing it.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: Fallout, Fallout 4, Post-Apocalypse, survival, video game

The Decker and the 10M of Fiber Optic Cable

April 25, 2016 by multiplexer

Algorithms become faster, smarter, and more efficient. Nastier. More aggressive.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: economics, gaming, shadowrun

Shotgunning

April 12, 2016 by Chris Sims

Since that day my first nameless elf died in the gray-ooze cave in The Keep on the Borderlands, I was hooked. I got into roleplaying games over three decades ago because I was interested in the drama.

Filed Under: Analysis Paralysis, Editorial, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, freelancing, game design, intellectual property, nerd culture, roleplaying games, Storytelling, transmedia storytelling, world building

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