Hero Dice

The annual DICE convention brings a bunch of big-deal thinkers and video-game creators to Vegas to engage in…

Comedian Jay Mohr won't be hosting the annual video game awards show at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas this year.…

Last week's rough launch of Diablo III neatly illustrated the biggest problem with the game's 'always-on' internet…

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,…