It's time, once again, to enter a bizarre new world, full of strange things to discover. Welcome... to the Liminal Shore. I remember when I first read Numenera. The setting captured my imagination in a way nothing had since Dungeons & Dragons when I was a young boy. The blend of the familiar and the … Continue reading Review: Liminal Shore
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Review: Voices of the Datasphere
I remember as a young boy when I was old enough (it was released when I was four), watching Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, and Cindy Morgan face off against David Warner in the movie classic, Tron. It was the lights that fascinated me. The blues of the memory discs and the light cycles. The reds … Continue reading Review: Voices of the Datasphere
Review: Mortal Fantasy
Mortal Fantasy is by Christopher Robin Negelein of Ganza Gaming One of the great things that Monte Cook Games has done is to make it possible for their most loyal, and some would say their craziest, fans to produce content under license and sell it. Patterned after systems like DM’s Guild, the Cypher Creator System … Continue reading Review: Mortal Fantasy
Co-GMing the Cypher System: Our Experience
Partners in crime... er... games. Yeah, games... Joann and I have been GMing roleplaying games now for something like a combined 45 or 50 years. Both of us in home games, and I’ve run conventions (both individual game sessions and helping to run whole conventions). We have dealt with a myriad of player types, a … Continue reading Co-GMing the Cypher System: Our Experience
Review: We Are All Mad Here
Down a rabbit hole, behind a waterfall... wonder seems to be what draws us into the world of the fairy tale. For going on 35 years now, I have played roleplaying games. Much of that time has been focused on Dungeons & Dragons, that is, classic high fantasy. Much of that time has been focused … Continue reading Review: We Are All Mad Here
Storytelling and Gaming 