Art by Harry Clarke
A fair warning: this post may strike some as bleak. I talk very openly about both my physical impairment and mental illness, and how that colors my approach to adventure gaming and the like. If this sounds upsetting to you, I recently made a post about blood-thirsty bird factions and that’s funnier.
Continue reading “Adventure Gaming and Me”“Goodness, what a beautiful day, my fellow duke duck” – Art by Cecil Aldin
There’s nobody in history that ever gave the benefit of a doubt to the albatross. They’re screaming, evil bastards. Anyone who ever looked at their eyes can say so. They’re an abomination from the skies.
Continue reading “The Thieving Bird War”“Roll another, you did this to yourself” – Art by Harry Clarke
Macabre fiction, be it weird/horror, mystery or just a general feel of the gothic and decadent in drama, it’s a part of my life both personally and professionally. Therefore, I do engage in occasional horror roleplaying, and remain aware of how it’s infamously hard to ‘pull off’.
Continue reading “Thoughts on Horror Roleplaying: “To Pull Off””No, don’t ask me how to spell Rumpelstilltskin by surprise. – Art by Andrew Lang
“True names have power. If you tell someone your true name, they can attempt to have you raised from the dead if you met your end before your time”
Like everything else awesome in WoDu, it barely takes a couple sentences and doesn’t actually explain anything.
Continue reading “World of Dungeons and True Names”“Yeah, I’m leaving, I’m not dealing with this shit.” – Art by Gustave Doré
“One of the difficulties of horror gaming is that horror as a genre demands some limited agency, and gaming is about player agency.”
I don’t disagree that gaming is about player agency, but I disagree with the notion that horror is necessarily about limited agency of the characters over the situation, and that player agency limits horror.
Continue reading “Player Agency and Horror Roleplaying”
Roll to Doubt 