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Image Credit: James Cochran   Monday morning we were up at the big rock we call Everest, with all the girl dolls, gathering. My older daughter, Elsie, was explaining why…

As San Diego Comic-Con continues to prove itself the unshakable epicenter of all pop culture each summer, a common complaint is that on the convention floor, comics themselves have been pushed…

Road of Kings by Dancing Sorcerer Games Dancing Sorcerer Games, 2014 Dancing Sorcerer Games Road of Kings makes no pretension toward narrative complexity. The game’s protagonist, a procedurally named barbarian (Urd…

As a companion feature to This Week in Coping: What We’re Reading Now, I asked the Entropy community about the computer games, console games, mind games, tabletop games, playground games, browser…

This is a guest post by Phil Eklund, founder of Sierra Madre Games and designer of the board games Origins: How We Became Human, High Frontier, and Pax Porfiriana. It…

Session 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.  The Pathfinder Adventure…

Session 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.  Lini paused at…

People love series. When we love a book, a game, a movie, a piece of artwork — whatever — we want more. Trilogies, tetralogies, quintets: people like it when there is…

If you’re like me, you balk at the very idea of an “idea aide,” one of those little activity books used in undergraduate writing seminars to allow uncreative people to…

Let’s talk villains. Video game villains. In the journey of the hero, there always has to be opposition, a trial where the hero proves themselves. Whether it’s the Bowser’s or…