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…]
This is Faith in Play #68: Prayer, for July 2023. This arose in discussion on the Christian Gamers Guild mailing list. It seems that someone mentioned a new role playing game in which players were expected to verbalize the in-game prayers of their fictional characters to the real God. Guild members had mixed reactions to … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #67: Map, for June 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: Map, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #67: Stance, for June 2023. Periodically I ask for topic ideas for this series, and most recently someone replied Player Agency. I hear a lot about it in the OSR world, where a lot of the focus is on giving the player freedom to choose what they do outside of … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #66: Identity, for May 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: Flirting, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #66: Promises, for May 2023. I was very young when I saw a western something-or-other (don’t know if it was a movie or a television show) in which one of the characters made a statement that has stuck with me for over half a century: “A man’s only got his … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #65: Dog, for April 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: Dog, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]