Hero Dice

Chance has been a huge factor in role-playing games since the earliest days of pen-and-paper games. Normally…

Fable video games are supposed to operate around a promise. The three role-playing games spearheaded by former…

At the end of part one of this essay on analog games, I said I'd talk about specific examples of board games to show…

Why won't my father game with me?

A gambling man once bet me a hundred dollars he could think of something I couldn't convincingly pretend to dislike…

Our retrospective letter series concludes with part four.
An index of all letters can be found here.

Many role-playing games ask us if we want to save the world. Even the parody role-playing game Half Minute Hero,…

Prediction! There will be a lot of shooters (first-person and third-person) at E3 next week.

When a neo-nerd hipster douchebag joins Scott's old-school D&D game, it looks like heads are going to roll along…

Both myself and Jim [Rossignol] have recently been exploring preview code for upcoming dirty fantasy RPG The Witcher…