Life is just amazing. Next week begins what I’m calling D&D&D: Dungeons & Dragons & Discipleship. For those who have been following along, I’ll be showing clergy (and others) in the East Ohio Conference United Methodist Church how to use a tabletop roleplaying game like D&D as a discipleship tool. At the core of what … [Read more…]
We have finished another year, and by now we can say that it is a tradition to post an index of the past year’s articles on the last day. In December of 2020 we published 2020 at the Christian Gamers Guild Reviewed; the previous year it was 2019 at the Christian Gamers Guild Reviewed, and … [Read more…]
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…]
Editor’s note: As usual, opinions of Guild members do not reflect the position of the Guild as a whole. As an organization, we neither condemn nor endorse any given entertainment product. However, neither do we discourage members from offering their own opinions. What makes a game “Christian?” Intent If I handed you a rock and … [Read more…]
There are several concepts that need to be understood for proper potential damage dice for a given firearm system. There are two kinds of cavities that are created when a projectile hits a body. The wound cavity is created by the track of the projectile damaging tissue as it travels through the body, creating a … [Read more…]
Despite the viral impact of COVID-19 Gen Con is holding a virtual convention online, and once again the Christian Gamers Guild will be holding a Sunday morning non-denominational Christian worship service from 9 to 10 A.M. EDT. The event is ZED20189103, and is free via Zoom for the first five hundred participants. Hope to see … [Read more…]
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…]
Last December we published Thirteen Months in Review, in which I attempted to index everything that had been posted to the site in the previous thirteen months–the time from when our previous index, Overview of the Articles on the New Christian Gamers Guild Website, had been published. I am now attempting once again to summarize, … [Read more…]
Yahoo recently announced that the Groups service that the CGG has relied upon for years to manage our main email discussion list is being scaled back. Archives, photos, databases, polls, etc will be deleted come December. Since we do, in fact, use most of those features, we decided to move over to Groups.io, which not … [Read more…]
I was in a conversation recently about how Game Masters manage factions—how do you track their activities and relationships? I use a technique of mind mapping. If you’ve never heard this term, a mind map is a drawing that abstracts the relationships between people, organizations, nations, etc into a spatial diagram. It can look similar … [Read more…]