This is RPG-ology #53: In the Spirit of Radio, for April 2022. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition. This was originally published in the Winter 2004 edition of the Daedalus e-zine, and was forgotten when that publication vanished. However, having seen the French … [Read more…]
A Three Act Opening: A Story Within a Story By Michael Garcia Originally written February 2022 More on George Lucas’ and Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)? Has Mike seen any other movies?, you ask. The film is admittedly one of my favorites, and, as I continue to discover, it seems to be … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #53: Synchronicity, for April 2022. On the Christian Gamers Guild discussion board, Michael Garcia raised a familiar question with a new twist: how do you bring the hand of God into a role playing game without going over the top? In a game like Advanced Dungeons & Dragons™ magic is … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #52: Edison, for March 2022. 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. Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Those are probably the … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #52: Pirates, for March 2022. We have yet another archetype character this month. I picked pirates for the category name because there is something romantic about them in the modern mind, but this broadly covers brigands, bandits, and similar scoundrels. When I put the question to my panel of experts, … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #51: Motivation, for February 2022. 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. Remember a while back I spoke about getting ideas from television? Well, here’s … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #51: Protectors, for February 2022. Last month we looked at another archetype character, exploring the positives and negatives of Mercenaries. In the discussion stimulated when I asked about the type, a confusion arose, bringing up a different type of fighter, exemplified by the legendary lone ronin of Japanese folklore, the … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #50: Sentience, for February 2022. 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. One of the most difficult aspects of universe design is always what Multiverser … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #50: Mercenaries, for January 2022. Recently my attention was called to our article Faith and Gaming: Warriors, written about two decades ago, the first entry in our miniseries on Archetypes, looking at types of characters and how they reflect and challenge our faith. I remembered that I followed it with … [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…]