Image Credit: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Like most avid readers, I have long let Don Quixote, that seventeenth century tome of imaginary adventures, sit unread on my…
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Last night, I walked towards the street of the home where we used to live. I got as far as the curb across from our stoop, then had to sit…
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Session Report: Mistfall and Roleplaying
by Byron Alexander Campbell June 10, 2017Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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DOCTOR WHO: THE AMERICAN ADVENTURES
by Maxi Kim December 7, 2016The Doctor Who that author Justin Richards fell in love with in 1963 was, as many emerging fans had intuited, profoundly empathetic. Though his personality initially may have sometimes…
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I loved The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. The Wall of Storms (WoS) is not just a brilliant follow up, but one of the greatest novels I’ve read. There…
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Welcome to the first installment of Dungeons Mastered, a tabletop roleplaying column from someone still figuring this shit out. I’m Tyler Crumrine, your RPG concierge and game-master-in-training. I’d wanted to…
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Session Report: Darkest Night and Naming
by Byron Alexander Campbell June 20, 2015Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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The Devious Weasel Interview – Jim Felli on Shadows of Malice
by Byron Alexander Campbell March 17, 2015Jim Felli is a former university professor and currently works as a professional scientist. He has been playing Dungeons and Dragons for over 35 years and prefers AD&D to any…
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Session Report: Mage Knight Board Game and the Sandbox
by Byron Alexander Campbell January 31, 2015Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. As in many games,…
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12 Days of Gaming: Storyteller Cards
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 21, 2014Storyteller Cards and Storyteller Cards: Fantasy by Jason Tagmire and Campbell Whyte Button Shy, 2013-’14 Storyteller Cards Back in April, I wrote about Storyteller Cards, a very special deck of cards…
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When I was a kid, when I was a kid I got weird, so you know what I did? What I did was I hid in the folds of a…