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RPG-ology #53: In the Spirit of Radio

April 19, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #53:  In the Spirit of Radio, for April 2022. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition.  This was originally published in the Winter 2004 edition of the Daedalus e-zine, and was forgotten when that publication vanished.  However, having seen the French … [Read more…]

Posted in: RPG-ology Tagged: advice, characterization, characters, creation, disney, fantasy, fear, gaming, hobbits, imagination, magic, monsters, multiverser, music, relationships, role-playing, role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying game, ron edwards, rpg, science fiction, settings, social, sorcerer, story, television, tips, tolkien, universalis, world building, worldbuilding

2020 at the Christian Gamers Guild Reviewed

December 31, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 3 Comments

The year 2020 surprised all of us, as we scrambled to make life work under entirely different conditions.  However, the viral impact on our web site was minimal, as although we slowed down a bit we continued providing what we hope are valuable quality articles on gaming and faith.  Last December we published 2019 at … [Read more…]

Posted in: Bible Study, Chaplain's Corner, Conventions, Faith in Play, Games, Roll for Teaching, RPG-ology, The D&Degenerate, Tutorials Tagged: adventure design, alignment, autism, balance, character death, christian games, contortionist, death, dependent, derek white, dice, dungeons & dragons, faith in play, fiction, freedom, freedom of expression, Game Ideas Unlimited, games, geek, geek preacher, guidance, handicap, illusionism, knights of the dinner table, magic, map, mapping, matthew butler, metaphor, michael garcia, monster, neutrality, Person of Interest, Politically Correct, psionics, role-playing, rpg-ology, sewers, single session, spiritual warfare, superstition, teaching, teleportation, thanks, undead, vampires

Christianity and Role-Playing Games

December 29, 2020 by Scott Bennie Leave a Comment

In September 2006, Christian Gamers Guild member Scott Bennie posted several drafts of this article to the guild group mailing list.  It appears not to have made it to the web site, an oversight which is being addressed presently. Christianity and Role-Playing Games: Toward Reconciliation The price of living in grace is that we must … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: c.s. lewis, D&D, dungeons & dragons, dungeons and dragons, fantasy, gaming, j.r.r. tolkien, lewis, lord of the rings, lotr, Middle Earth, Narnia, occultism, role-playing, testament, the chronicles of narnia, tolkien, voyage of the dawn treader

Designing Deeper Adventures

December 22, 2020 by mgarcia Leave a Comment

No, this article isn’t about dungeons or caves. It’s about a design lesson that I only learned as an adult. As a kid, I skimmed through the Dungeon Masters Guide and the Monster Manuals countless times, planning adventures or just perusing all of the intriguing stuff within. Though this wasn’t playing, it was still magic. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tutorials Tagged: advice, D&D, dungeons & dragons, dungeons and dragons, fantasy, gm tips, magic, role-playing, role-playing game, tips, world building, worldbuilding

The First Line of Offense

August 25, 2020 by Matthew B

For the first time, I left the evening of D&D feeling accomplished. This time, things seemed to click. The DM drew us further into our character development, and I felt more connected to the character I had essentially created as a joke, as well as a game that was still extremely foreign to me. My … [Read more…]

Posted in: The D&Degenerate Tagged: D&D, dungeons & dragons, dungeons and dragons, role-playing, roleplaying, saving the game, session report, squirrel, unwritten rules

RPG-ology #33: Flirting

August 18, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #33:  Flirting, for August 2020. There was a Game Ideas Unlimited article of this title that addressed these ideas (not, it should be noted, romance).  That article appears to have been lost, and this is an attempt to address the ideas afresh. We roleplay for many different reasons.  Ron Edwards has identified … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: asia, bullies, character death, characters, creative agenda, death, engineer, evil, fighters, Game Ideas Unlimited, gamism, GNS, gunslinger, medieval, Narnia, outer space, post-apocalyptic, role-playing, roleplaying, saturn 5, sci-fi, science fiction, starship, swordfighter, toontown, western, wild west, wizard

Designing Single-Session Adventures part 1

July 14, 2020 by mgarcia 2 Comments

Part one of a four-article series on designing and running a one-shot, single-session adventure. See the end of the article for links to the rest of the series. Unfortunately, I’ve never been to a gaming convention, but for years I have been intrigued by the early tournament adventures of the late 1970s and early 1980s. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tutorials Tagged: adventure design, advice, D&D, dungeons & dragons, dungeons and dragons, fantasy, game, game master, gamemaster, gm tips, role-playing, roleplaying, rpg, tips

RPG-ology #29: Political Correction

April 21, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #29:  Political Correction, for April 2020. The phrase has been around long enough that I cannot imagine anyone in the English-speaking world does not know what “politically correct” means.  In the short form it means never saying anything that might offend any member of any minority group, whether or not such a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: abortion, ACLU, aliens, American Civil Liberties Union, attorney, belief, Captain Kirk, chaos, crossing lines, dwarf, Enemy Mine, Fahrenheit 451, fantasy, first amendment, freedom of expression, futuristic, half-orc, historic, impolite, Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes, Klingons, lawful, lawyer, non-player character, orc, paul cardwell, Politically Correct, politically incorrect, rape, ray bradbury, role-playing, role-playing game, science fiction, sex, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Tick Tick Tick, violence

RPG-ology #28: Character Death

March 17, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #28:  Character Death, for March 2020. A couple times recently I have seen social media posts calling for role playing gamers to express their opinions about character death.  The promoter indicated that he was planning to write an article on the subject, and eventually I had the opportunity to read it–but honestly … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: basic dungeons & dragons, blue box, character death, D&D, death, Diana Jones Award, dungeons & dragons, faith in play, fear, funerals, gamma world, goblins, Holmes edition, illusionism, mourning, multiverser, non-player character, orc, role-playing, role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying game, ron edwards, total party kill

Sewers and Such

January 14, 2020 by mgarcia Leave a Comment

Someone once wrote that good Game Masters seem to know a little bit about everything. If it’s not obvious, this is because they need to know how the world works so they can make their own game settings seem real. I know this first-hand from years of running fantasy campaigns. At one point or another, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: advice, fantasy, gm tips, greece, history, indus river valley, irrigation, knossos, paris, role-playing, role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying game, rome, rpg, sanitation, settings, sewer, sewers, tips, water, world building, worldbuilding
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