Category: Games
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Tales From the Archive: The Explosive Saga of DOC TOLTEC!
This isn't a published story. In fact, I wrote it as character background for a roleplaying campaign Brian Rogers was putting together. Brian was trying to create a superhero campaign with the feel of a real-world "all-stars superteam" comic book like JLA or The Mighty Avengers. These teams differ from groups like The Fantastic Four…
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Are We Helping?
I've lately been reading about the Inklings — C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, and their buddies, who used to hang out together in Oxford to drink beer, eat ham, and talk about literature and religion. They functioned as a writers' workshop, not unlike the redoubtable CSFW which tolerates my presence. But lately…
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Tales From the Archive: Secret of the Swamp
I wrote several Space: 1889 adventures for the late, great Challenge magazine during the 1990s. Since Challenge and Game Designers' Workshop are long out of business, I thought I'd reprint some of my old articles and adventures on this 'blog, as a service to anyone interested in one of the quirkiest, most amazing roleplaying games…
The Cambias Digression 