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…]
This is Faith in Play #83: Spirits, for October 2024. In my book Why I Believe I note that if there is a supernatural realm in which God exists, it is at least likely that there are other spirits existing in that realm. Further, those spirits might be at least as varied as living organisms … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #82: Knowing, for September 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: Knowing, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #82: Nice, for September 2024. “I need to be more human.” Not knowing how to reply to this comment, I silently awaited some statement that would give it context. In a moment I was rewarded. “I need to be more nice.” I recognized something of a non-sequitur, so I said … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #81: Wizardry, for August 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: Wizardry, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #81: The Bland Mind, for August 2024. I’m going to confess up front that this thought came from a typo: I was studying in the Synoptics about Jesus healing a blind man, and I mistyped bland for blind. I corrected it immediately, but it left me wondering, couldn’t Jesus heal … [Read more…]