What is a Roleplaying Game?

Nearly every Roleplaying Game book has a very strange section in it; called “What is a Roleplaying Game?” Like most gamers I just took this for granted, but when I started to plan Free Spacer, I started to wonder if this section was even necessary. I’ve never run across a novel with a “What is Narrative literature?” section or a Cookbook with a “What...

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Just as I begin, Ryan Dancey kills White Wolf

As I sit down and attempt to write this first blog to document the design and production of my first traditional Roleplaying game, Free Spacer a couple interesting things have happened. On November 6, 2009, in an article for Gamasutra “Q&A: CCP On Keeping EVE Online Fresh And Growing” Christian Nutt asked Ryan Dancey an interesting question: Can you fill...

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