Rules are the basis of Setting

Can you play a social game with 4th edition? Or use WoD for a dungeon crawl? Does System Matter? Of course, you can use any system to play any sort of game, but should you? Cross Purposes Is it so bad to play at cross purposes; most systems are designed to have mechanics to handle any situation. So why does it matter? Well, take D&D 4e for example; when you...

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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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