This is Faith in Play #73: Pilgrimage, for December 2023. Referees are frequently looking for adventure ideas, and there are a lot of stock options–tip from a stranger, retrieval or rescue mission, strange map. Among the ones commonly used is the caravan guards, that the player characters are hired to travel with a merchant and … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #72: Multiple Staging, for November 2023. 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: Multiple Staging, and is reposted here … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #72: Backup, for November 2023. I once played with a referee who had a very interesting strategy. He would maneuver players into very dangerous ventures in part by providing them with trump cards, aces up their sleeves as it were, which could be character lifelines in an emergent situation. Then … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #71: Time, for October 2023. 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: Time, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #71: Good Witch, for October 2023. The word “witch”, according to the dictionary, has connotations of evil magic, ugly appearance, and a nasty disposition. Yet in our usage we have lost this aspect of witches being evil and ugly. Indeed, if you attend enough game conventions you will meet girls … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #70: Value, for September 2023. 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: Value, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #70: Holy War, for September 2023. I heard someone make a comment about religious issues in a war-based video game, and it brought to mind Nebuchadnezzar and Darius the Mede. In the ancient world, almost every nation had its own gods, and when they went to war it was often … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #69: Distracted, for August 2023. Some decades back I was a scout leader, and as I have mentioned elsewhere our troop did a lot of canoeing. The Delaware River has a few sections that are very touristy. Aided by wing dams which raise the water level upstream, there are calm stretches in … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #69: Steeple, for August 2023. There is something in Jewish history we call the Diaspora. It refers to the fact that having been driven from their homeland many Jews settled in nations throughout the world. It may have begun with the Assyrian Empire and perhaps is technically still happening today. … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #68: Expertise, for July 2023. I was packing up ground beef for the freezer. Generally if I have a bit of money and there’s a good price for it, I buy between ten and twenty pounds, and try to repackage it in zipper bags of about three pounds each which I can … [Read more…]