What is this new spin on classic Champions?

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With friendships for PCs and things, You can see what teenage love brings, With your fangirl squee you’re off on a trip, With a quivering…

Pictures and links from #GGC19

I haven’t been back to GGC in a few years, but I’ll be there this Sunday to support an artist friend, and see what there is to see. I don’t…

Cutscenes, recaps, and PBP - what am I talking about when I talk about the act of playing a game?

I'd written about the Monday Masks game ending [earlier](/2018/10/30/the-unmasking/). Tonight, we saw the penultimate episode. And I'm pretty happy about how things are wrapping up. Why is that?

The game I've been playing for over a year, colloquially known as "Monday Masks", is coming to an end. I don't know if it'll be in two sessions or twenty. So what should I make of all this?

A long time ago, on a Blu-Ray far far away...

Here's a big master list of resources for people doing creative writing.

Political posts don't normally appear in this space.

I like putting thought into the reasons why a setting must work a certain way.

The last several weeks have been pretty busy. I've been slow to post, so here's a recap of recent work.

This is a continuation of part 1, [Deconstructing Doc Smith](/2016/03/24/deconstructing-doc-smith/). In this part, I'll be talking about the underlying model of a typical Doc Smith universe, the unfo...

[Film Crit Hulk] writes about "breaking a story". Rather than constructing a story, the goal is to take a story you're familiar with, or want to tell, and separate it into its component pieces. So I'm...

Two ideas came together for me this morning: a discussion of the mass graves of London, and the recent victory of AlphaGo over Lee Sedol. No, really.

Thinking more about the [Souls of Steel playtest](/2015/10/12/souls-of-steel/) at GeekGirlCon spurred me to combine two of my anime interests: giant mecha and romantic comedy. No, seriously.

After writing about the [Top Ten Super-Tropes](/2015/10/01/top-ten-supertropes/) that bother me the most, I thought I would talk about the tropes in superhero gaming that really make it work for me as...

I recently backed the [Masks] Kickstarter, and I think it will be well worth it. Before that, I backed the [Daring Comics RPG]. Before that, I've played any number of supers settings, at any number of...