How Do Five Guys Across the World Make Four Hours of Deathwatch Fun?
I’ve been mentioning Deathwatch a lot in the last couple of months, talking it up. I think it’s high time I started walking the talk and get some friends to …
The Thing-A-Week Project Plan
You know, I’ve done an awful lot of talking about making fun since I re-branded my web log to Step One: Make Fun! Yet in that time I’ve not actually made all …
Can Deathwatch Make Fun In Grim Darkness?
The tag-line for Games Workshop’s fictional universe known as Warhammer 40,000 is, “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” It’s like an odd mash-up of The …
Fighting the Blues With Progress in Small Chunks
Sometimes, it’s easy to get distracted by troubles when they come up, especially when you’re already trying to sort yourself out after prior ones. The extra pressure makes you want …
A Return to Old Playing and Getting Paid to Podcast
It’s been a good seven days here at the Realm. It’s been an upswing in both progress toward getting paid to play and, well, just playing. On the play front, …
Why Mass Effect 3’s Fans Are Wrong About The Ending – But So Is BioWare (Part 1)
To say that audience expectations of Mass Effect 3 were huge would be an understatement. One pundit claimed that the Mass Effect trilogy of games is “the most important science …
How To Quit Something Without Quitting It
Quit. It’s short, heavy word, isn’t it? A sharp word for a sharp thing. Sever your ties with a Big Thing in your life. A job. A mortgage. Give up. Walk away. Run. …
Gaming in 2010
While 2009 wasn’t a gaming-free year by any stretch of the imagination, I’m really looking forward to what 2010 will bring gaming-wise. Let’s start with computer and video gaming. Vickie …
FreeMarket: Lord, Have MRCZ
(Yeah, I’m sure someone’s already done it. Still.) I recently wrote an article detailing my issue with the roleplaying hobby: the irony that, in a hobby that tends to pride …
FreeMarket: Challenges, Card Decks and Memories
Freemer Fever seems to have taken hold in my brain. After my first pass of the FreeMarket beta rulebook I’m giving it a more sedate reading, spotting bugs (i.e. typos …