I don’t do press releases, or product release “carnivals” any more, for a number of reasons. First, even though I still write a lot about roleplaying games, I don’t consider this to be an RPG site and I’m certainly not exclusively an RPG writer. Second, I have a certain ethical squeamishness about how some (not … Continue reading
You know, better late to the party than not at all, I say. This issue is already a few weeks old, and a lot of people rushed to review it at that time, so let’s just say I didn’t want to get caught in the wrong end of the signal-to-noise ratio. Let’s assume that I’m … Continue reading
Two weeks on the road and working from whatever free wifi points I could find have seriously messed up my work schedule. I figured I’d get back into my old routines and get caught up once we got home, but internet in the studio is down until Friday. So I’m back to working from coffee … Continue reading
Someday I’m going to run the superhero campaign I’ve always dreamed of, where there’s more character development and more soap operatic storylines than fight scenes. I want to explore what a world with superheroes looks like, without doing yet another post- Watchmen deconstruction of what it means to be a superhero or what defines a … Continue reading
Allow me to make a confession: about half the time, when I meet new people and they ask me what I do, I lie. I make up the most mundane, boring, unworthy-of-discussion job I can think of, so we can move on. I don’t like talking about being a writer with non-writers. When I do … Continue reading
I wish I could find an episode with better resolution. The 1994 revival series just didn’t float my boat.
The episode of the television show In Plain Sight that I appear in airs this Sunday, June 27th at 10 p.m. on the USA Network. Don’t blink or you’ll miss me. In one scene I’m sitting on a bench in the background, talking on my cell phone. In another, I’m walking down the street behind … Continue reading
One of the hardest parts of traveling is getting back home at the end. I’m not talking about the pain of leaving behind people you were visiting, or the dread of going back to a day job. I’m talking about the actual mundane chores associated with getting back. You’ve got luggage to unpack and laundry … Continue reading
This post is meant to be generic, but you can apply it to many things. If you want to read my relationship with various roleplaying game communities into it, that’s fine. If you want to read my relationship to organized religion into it, that works, too. I just join the RPG Blog Alliance and a … Continue reading
If you play Primetime Adventures you should definitely acquire a copy of Hamlet’s Hit Points. The book walks you through analyzing story beats using a system of icons and arrows, showing how the dramatic tensions of the story change to keep things interesting. It provides three examples: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the screenplay for the James Bond … Continue reading
