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Faith in Play #64: A Kingdom Allegory

March 7, 2023 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #64:  A Kingdom Allegory, for March 2023. I was musing on random ideas when my mind stumbled on a setting idea, a piece of a larger world I would expect, into which the characters might wander and which they might find confusing but possibly, what, educational?  I have couched it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: fantasy, medieval, Oriental, science fiction

Faith in Play #62: Theocracy

January 3, 2023 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 1 Comment

This is Faith in Play #62:  Theocracy, for January 2023. Whether our imagined worlds are vast universes or small villages, there is always someone, person, people, or other, who is in charge.  We call that government.  In most of our medieval-themed worlds, and many of our futuristic ones, we envision a monarchial feudalism.  In the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: caesar, christian gamers guild, democracy, fantasy, feudalism, futuristic, god, gods, government, guidance, Israel, joshua, judges, medieval, michael garcia, monarchy, monotheism, moses, oracle, pantheon, pharaoh, plato, priests, prophets, sci-fi, science fiction, theocracy, winston churchill

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

RPG-ology #45: Learning

August 17, 2021 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 2 Comments

This is RPG-ology #45:  Learning, for August 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles.  This was originally published as Game Ideas Unlimited:  Learning, and has been reproduced here with minor editing [bracketed]. Gamers … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: books, buffy, buffy the vampire slayer, christie, columbo, conan-doyle, dante, fantasy, gamers, goethe, James Burke, milton, science fiction, shakespeare, sophocles, stephen king, television, time travel, TV

Ten Tips for Turning your Session Notes into Short Stories

July 27, 2021 by mgarcia Leave a Comment

When I started to DM with regularity, I began keeping bulleted summary notes on each gaming session.  By my current standards, those first notes were barely adequate.  In time, I made some improvements.  I also began to incorporate into my summary notes some short lines of text that I used during the session itself.  They … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tutorials Tagged: AD&D, battle, braveheart, cavalier, characters, cleric, combat, creative writing, details, DM, fantasy, fear, fighter, flashback, frangia, frangians, gaming, magic-user, mel gibson, notes, npc, pc, players, proofread, rpg, science fiction, stephen king, stories, story, theater of the mind, thief, val kilmer, writing

RPG-ology #41: Over My Shoulder

April 20, 2021 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #41:  Over My Shoulder, for April 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. We are skipping another which has already been published, but since this thirteenth entry is itself an … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: fantasy, Game Ideas Unlimited, holiday, science fiction

Faith in Play #39: Of Aliens and Elves

February 2, 2021 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #39:  Of Aliens and Elves, for February 2021. Fantasy and science fiction are riddled with races.  Star Trek offers Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, Bajorans, and a host of others.  Dungeons & Dragons gives us multiple varieties of Elves, Dwarfs, Gnomes, and Halflings, just for starters, and keeps going from there.  … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: advanced dungeons & dragons, aliens, bajoran, c.s. lewis, cardassian, centaur, characters, demihuman, dungeons & dragons, dwarf, elves, fantasy, fiction, giant, gnome, halfling, harry potter, heaven, house elves, human, jesus, Klingons, outer planes, prime material plane, ray bradbury, reincarnation, resurrection, romulan, saint paul, salvation, science fiction, soteriology, star trek, vulcan

Starfinder Stuff for Pathfinder Second Edition

October 27, 2020 by thegamemaster Leave a Comment

Conversion rules for the inclusion of Starfinder content in a Pathfinder Second Edition game, if you like to mix your chocolate and peanut butter. Starfinder Stuff can be taken from the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Armory, and any other official Starfinder resource with GM approval. Normally, these would be located or obtained through events in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Games, Tutorials Tagged: conversion, D20, fantasy, pathfinder, pathfinder 2e, pathfinder second edition, rules, sci-fi, science fiction, starfinder

Faith in Play #34: Guidance and The Machine

September 1, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 1 Comment

This is Faith in Play #34:  Guidance and The Machine, for September 2020. Some people I know are terrified of the vision of the world in Person of Interest, the television series currently available on Netflix.  In it, a man going by the name of Harold Finch has created a hardware/software combination that monitors and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: artificial intelligence, camera, cell phone, computer, data, devotional, father brown, god, guidance, hardware, harold finch, john reese, joss carter, lionel fusco, metaphor, moses, Netflix, paul, Person of Interest, prophet, root, saint paul, samantha groves, sameen shaw, sci-fi, science fiction, scifi, software, terrorism, terrorist, terrorist attacks, The Machine

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
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