I’ve been thinking a lot about the seeming disconnect between the various generations of gamers, each of whom are convinced that their way to play a game… Read more “The Five Levels of Play Style”
Tag: Table Talk
Hex Flower Engine: For When the Job Goes Pear-Shaped…
My apologies for the absence these last couple of weeks. I was getting over a major oral surgery, and the constant mouth pain made it difficult to… Read more “Hex Flower Engine: For When the Job Goes Pear-Shaped…”
Table Talk: My Top 5 Favorite RPGs with Great Writing
RPGaDAY 2024 Prompt: Day 5 – An RPG with Great Writing I’m on the mend from some major oral surgery, so there’s no table talk this week.… Read more “Table Talk: My Top 5 Favorite RPGs with Great Writing”
How to Use Random Tables
Random tables are woven into the very fabric of role-playing games, from the earliest Wandering Monster tables to all of those Appendices in the AD&D Dungeon Master’s… Read more “How to Use Random Tables”
Progress and Predictions: the future of D&D
The news that John Hight, formerly of Blizzard, has joined WotC as the new company President has reignited the speculation that WizBro is moving into an online,… Read more “Progress and Predictions: the future of D&D”
Chessex Stories 7: Banemaster
“We need to talk.” Weldon looked worried. I’d met him at the airport to help him schlep his luggage back on the BART train from Oakland.“Sure, what’s… Read more “Chessex Stories 7: Banemaster “
Chessex Stories 6: The CCG and the RPG
Try to imagine, if you can, a world where the only collectible trading card game in existence is Magic: The Gathering, and it’s so popular, you can’t… Read more “Chessex Stories 6: The CCG and the RPG”
Chessex Stories – The Mark and Weldon Show
It wasn’t all fun and games working for an RPG manufacturer in Northern California. Some days we had to do real, actual work…like acting as party hosts… Read more “Chessex Stories – The Mark and Weldon Show”
Table Talk: Chessex Stories – Speckled Dice!
I found myself working at Chessex Southwest at the time when the company was growing like Audrey 2 in Little Shop of Horrors and scaring the hell… Read more “Table Talk: Chessex Stories – Speckled Dice! “
Table Talk: Chessex Stories
Prologue: Well? How did I Get Here? The mid-90s were a heady time in the gaming sphere; the Internet was brand-new, there was this little indy game… Read more “Table Talk: Chessex Stories”