We all invest time and energy in coming together to play our favorite games, whatever they may be. There is no right or wrong game for you or your group. Each group needs to find the game(s) that work for them; damn the naysayers! The only wrong game is one that does not support the…
Tag: Musing
Once There Was a Camelot: Reflections on The Great Pendragon Campaign
The Great Pendragon Campaign Author: Greg Stafford Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 434 Available Formats: PDF & Print PDF (DTRPG) – $24.99 Print (DTRPG) – $37.50 Print+PDF (DTRPG) – $44.50 ‘Comfort thyself,’ said the king, ‘and do as well as thou mayest, for in me is no trust for to trust in; for I will into…
On This Day, March 9, 1923
Since the start of this year, I’ve been doing a daily TikTok video going through Boston Globe newspaper headlines from exactly 100 years ago. I’ve used old newspaper archives heavily when running RPG campaigns set in the past, and Call of Cthulhu particularly benefitted from this treatment. In my experiment of doing a daily video…
The Robots are Coming, The Robots are Coming!
My TikTok feed has been filled with people experimenting with AI art, especially an anime/manga filter. There are also several apps that will generate AI art for you—sometimes using a picture as a seed, other times solely based on a description you type in. Additionally, there has been a ton of buzz about ChatGPT AI. It…
Modoc’s Reading Initiative for 2023
Each year as the calendar changes from 31st December to 1st January and as the fireworks light up the night sky the world over, people tend to make resolutions to themselves and others. Unfortunately, many of these resolutions are nothing more than lip service to make oneself feel better that quickly fall by the wayside….
The Time Card of Cthulhu
Hello Peter what’s happening. I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. So if you could be here at around… 9 that’d be great… -Bill Lumbergh, Office Space, 1999 Being in the tech industry, I was recently hit by those infamous layoffs you’ve seen in the news lately. My company’s layoffs…
Generic Systems – Are They A One-Stop Solution?
Do generic roleplaying game systems work well across various genres and settings or do they work better for some over others? This short article will attempt to answer that question, but we must first look at some generic systems out there and assess their strengths and weaknesses. This article will only look at the most…
Could it be… Satan?
In the fourth season of Stranger Things, we witness the 1980s “Satanic Panic”—an actual phenomenon I remember, though I was thankfully not much affected by it. The Satanic Panic was a fairly broad phenomenon, much of it originating from a rash of false allegations against daycare centers that were supposedly committing “satanic ritual abuse.” There…
Fish or Cut Bait?
What is it that makes an RPG campaign last? When is it time to decide the current campaign isn’t working and it’s time to try something new? I’ve noticed that the groups I game with tend to go through different stages. Sometimes we’ll have a lot of consistency with games lasting dozens of sessions. Our current…
Gaming in the Age of Enlightenment
I’m writing this article in the week before America’s Independence Day. And that has me thinking about RPGs set in a Colonial or Revolutionary America. Or during the Age of Enlightenment in general, roughly the 17th and 18th centuries. It occurred to me there’s not a bit of a dearth of RPGs set during that period….
Rolling Boxcars 