Portals & Pegasi
Dungineering ’till your last desperate breath clawing at the Dark
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To Prepare is Human, To Improvise is Divine
Make this tale live for us in all its many bearings, O Muse Homer’s Odyssey, translation by T.E. Lawrence I’m an avid Alexandrian reader, and often I find in his posts useful and insightful GMing advice. It’s got the best role playing theory on the net, and his series on Game Structures fundamentally changed theContinue reading “To Prepare is Human, To Improvise is Divine”
Goblin’s Laws of Gaming in the Dark
My wife recently asked me why I’m not running Blades in the Dark. It’s a fair question. I really like that game, it’s my go-to for conventions, and two of my mythological campaigns were Blades games and also, a blast. Its ideal for silly action adventures, and lend itself to improvisation and craziness (also, ifContinue reading “Goblin’s Laws of Gaming in the Dark”
The Philosopher
The Nothic’s Eye recently wrote up a Wizard and a Fighter GLOG classes for his Greek mythos setting (Eikonokosmos) that put all other versions of those classes to shame[1]: magic missile is a nymph that punch people in the face and the Fighter is fated to die, probably from poison, and have strong opinions onContinue reading “The Philosopher”
