This is RPG-ology #80: Words, for July 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: Words, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #80: Synchronized, for July 2024. About two years ago we posted Faith in Play #53: Synchronicity. This is a related but distinct notion. Now four decades ago when I was a DJ on one of the then few contemporary Christian radio stations in the world I noticed something peculiar. Fairly … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #79: Faith, for June 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: Faith, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #79: Mind, for June 2024. I often receive questions from readers in comments or by e-mail, on a wide range of subjects. Recently a girl (woman?) wrote about a concern she has related to role playing games: should we be filling our minds with these thoughts and images? Or, as … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #78: Recoil, for May 2024. One of the purposes of this series, drawn from its predecessor Game Ideas Unlimited, is to provide you with tools you might use in your games. This might be one of those tools. Some years back at The Forge a designer was seeking a way to make … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #78: Stakes, for May 2024. In my book Why I Believe I wrote, “Tests are merely games, and if you go into them thinking of them as games and relax and enjoy playing, you will perform better. What makes people nervous is not the game but the stakes.” I had … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #77: Wounds, for April 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: Wounds, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #77: Animals, for April 2024. We’ve talked about animals before. Faith and Gaming: Animals discussed their perceptions of reality in the context of whether they were praising God outside our knowledge, and last year RPG-ology #65: Dog (a recovered Game Ideas Unlimited article) discussed how animals think, as a pointer … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #76: Derivative, for March 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: Derivative, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #76: Lineage, for March 2024. Lineage–the chain of ancestry from father to son over generations–is a very significant theme in the Bible, more so than even many serious students of the Bible realize. We recognize that the Old Testament is laced with family records covering centuries, and that in the … [Read more…]