The Wizard Sleeve: Sweet Victory

As a gamemaster, you must never discount that player motivation will often trump character motivation.  Sure, everyone likes to brag about games with “deep roleplaying” and “staying in-character” and most of the time experienced roleplayers have little trouble separating their desires from the character’s. However, sometimes there’s a carrot dangling that no player can resist […]

Your Morning Head: Role Playing Animals with/without Weapons, pt 2

After listening to Fear the Boot’s recent episode on playing animal characters, I wrote yesterday about playing something approaching a true animal (i.e. no thumbs, no pants).  Today, I want to pick up on the other part of FtB’s episode.  Role playing more human-like animal characters. Y’know, furries. Anthropomorphs The hosts of Fear the Boot […]

Battle for the Cowl: Red Robin #2

You know, looking at some of the preview art from Red Robin #2, I’m beginning to wonder if Red Robin is, in fact, Tim Drake.  See, Tim Drake is supposed to be, what?  Fifteen?  Seventeen?  The character of Red Robin appears to be much older than that.  Of course, that could just be the art, […]

Old School Gaming: Heretic

Hey there old school gamers!  Remember when we liked playing video games on our PC?  I mean, sure we had our Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis, but you couldn’t play the best games on those systems…no, stuff like DOOM and the original Need for Speed…those were PC games back then, and PC gaming was good.  […]