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RPG-ology #67: Map

June 20, 2023 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: boy scouts, characters, darkness, dimensions, dungeon, Game Ideas Unlimited, light, map, map-making, maps, maze, miniatures, players, spaceship

Faith in Play #63: Inadequacy

February 7, 2023 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #63:  Inadequacy, for February 2023. Decades ago comedian Bill Cosby got a lot of laughs from a sketch about Noah’s conversations with God.  Throughout Noah is full of doubts and questions (“Am I on Candid Camera?), not at all happy with what he has been instructed to do. We don’t … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: Abraham, bill cosby, characters, fiat, frodo baggins, get smart, gideon, god, gollum, joshua, lauren hastings, lord of the rings, max smart, miracles, moses, noah, novel, referee, samwise, sarah, strategy

RPG-ology #56: Voices

July 19, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #56:  Voices, for July 2022.   A couple months back someone on a Facebook RPG group (and I honestly don’t remember which) asked for advice on how to individualize non-player characters.  There was some good advice given, including a small bit from me about creating character voices; but the question keeps coming … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: characters, facebook, gm tips, npcs, props, referee, referee technique, rpg, tips

Faith in Play #56: Guidance

July 5, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #56:  Guidance, for July 2022. In most of our games, either God or the gods are irrelevant, or we via our characters tell them what we want to do and ask or sometimes tell them to help.  Sometimes the referee decides that we will go on a quest, and a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: c.s. lewis, characters, chronicles of narnia, cleric, CS Lewis, deity, fantasy, god, gods, guidance, illusionism, luck, magic, magic-user, mechanics, prayer, prophet, spells, the chronicles of narnia, traveller

RPG-ology #55: The Process

June 21, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #55:  The Process, for May 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.  This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited:  The Process, and is reposted here … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: character sheet, characters, choices, creativity, dimensions, funeral, Game Ideas Unlimited, Gaming Outpost, illusion, intellect, Jay Fedigan, M. Joseph Young, music, romance, sentience, setting, superstition, television, thomas edison

Faith in Play #55: Marriage

June 7, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #55:  Marriage, for June 2022. I have written quite a bit about marriage over the years; I’ll not endeavor to list anything here.  It strikes me, though, that although in my fiction I’ve had several weddings and character marriages, and in my games likewise, I haven’t written much about marriages … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: aliens, characters, christian, elves, faith and gaming, fiction, Game Ideas Unlimited, gender, marriage, polyandry, polygamy, promiscuity, rpg-ology, sex

Faith in Play #54: Stigma

May 3, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #54:  Stigma, for May 2022. Half a year ago, when RPG-ology #48:  Embraces was published, a reader following our Facebook page (which exists primarily to let people know we exist somewhere else) commented that we should drop the word “Christian” from our group’s name.  I responded to ask why, but … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: bad guys, characters, christian, christian gamers guild, facebook, faith in play, fiction, gamers, marriage, relationships, role-playing game, roleplaying, romance, rpg-ology, song of solomon

RPG-ology #53: In the Spirit of Radio

April 19, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: RPG-ology Tagged: advice, characterization, characters, creation, disney, fantasy, fear, gaming, hobbits, imagination, magic, monsters, multiverser, music, relationships, role-playing, role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying game, ron edwards, rpg, science fiction, settings, social, sorcerer, story, television, tips, tolkien, universalis, world building, worldbuilding

RPG-ology #48: Embraces

November 16, 2021 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #48:  Embraces, for November 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles.  This was originally published as Game Ideas Unlimited:  Embraces, and has been reproduced here with minor editing [bracketed]. I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: adventure, aragorn, characters, clue, commander jonathan ford, cross-gender, dancing princess, dragonslayer, experience points, gender, han solo, hunt for red october, jack ryan, james bond, legend, lieutenant loni henderson, lord of the rings, miss scarlet, movies, multiverser, patriot games, players, princess leia, professor plum, relationship, romance, romancing the stone, samwise, seaquest, star trek, star wars, television

Ten Tips for Turning your Session Notes into Short Stories

July 27, 2021 by mgarcia Leave a Comment

When I started to DM with regularity, I began keeping bulleted summary notes on each gaming session.  By my current standards, those first notes were barely adequate.  In time, I made some improvements.  I also began to incorporate into my summary notes some short lines of text that I used during the session itself.  They … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tutorials Tagged: AD&D, battle, braveheart, cavalier, characters, cleric, combat, creative writing, details, DM, fantasy, fear, fighter, flashback, frangia, frangians, gaming, magic-user, mel gibson, notes, npc, pc, players, proofread, rpg, science fiction, stephen king, stories, story, theater of the mind, thief, val kilmer, writing
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