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 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 Faith in Play #41: Faith, for April 2021. Recently somewhere on the Web a discussion arose that suggested that if you build a world in which God or the gods manifest visibly frequently and work wonders regularly, there is no need for faith in such a world. I am persuaded that this is … [Read more…]