This is RPG-ology #87: The Alien, for February 2025. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: The Alien, and is reposted here … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #87: Crosses, for February 2025. Jesus famously called potential followers to take up their own crosses and follow Him. This has led to the expression my cross to bear, which people apply to everything from illnesses to inlaws. I would suggest, however, that none of those things are your cross. … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #86: Uncertainty, for January 2025. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: Uncertainty, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #86: Tempters, for January 2025. We received a question via our Facebook page. The page exists mostly to alert people to this site and to our e-mail discussion group, but we often interact with people who post or message us there. This was a particularly good question; I shall leave … [Read more…]
Those of us overseeing the web site have been otherwise pressured in 2024, with the result that there is a backlog of articles submitted by members of the Christian Gamers Guild, but the only things that actually got published were entries in the two main series, Faith in Play and RPG-ology. It is a tradition … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #85: Common, for December 2024. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: Common, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #85: Codes, for December 2024. In any village, any city, any region, any world, characters are constrained. They are, of course, constrained by the local law. I have written extensively about that elsewhere, particularly in The Source of Law, The Course of Law, and The Force of Law. That, though, … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #84: Possibilities, for November 2024. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: Possibilities, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #84: Hope, for November 2024. Some years back I was frequenting a Lutheran web forum–one of my degrees is from a Lutheran Bible college, but I was one of a few non-Lutherans in that group–when a young ministry student raised a question: if Paul says that of faith, hope, and … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #83: Tactics, for October 2024. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: Tactics, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]