Jun
18
Roughly two weeks ago I published the first in a multi-article series of good video games for RPG’s. This is inspired by Chris’s fantastic article 10 TV shows that could make good roleplaying games. What makes a good story in a video game may not make a good story when you have half a dozen people trying to carve out their own legacies within this world. Read More
Jun
17
Ongoing Worlds Community Honor
It give me great pleasure to present the 10th Ongoing Worlds Community Honor to none other than David Ball for founding Ongoing Worlds and leading it over the last 4+ years. Indeed, David has not only created a wonderful website where independent sims, both themed and original, can thrive, but he’s also developed an online blog that has now become the intellectual center of the online role playing community. Simply put, no one is more deserving of a community honor than David. Congratulations! Read More
Jun
16
The Simming Prize
Image by Jack Carter
EDIT – The winner for this award has been announced here.
Please allow me to confirm the rumor… The 2013 Simming Prize is officially open for nominations! I recently had the opportunity to sit down with FSF Ignatius, the Prize’s administrator, and he filled me in on the details. All simmers and online role players are permitted to submit their favorites from among the community through June 27, 2014 at the following link:
https://tinyurl.com/SimmingPrize
The winners will be announced at the end of July.
Jun
14
My last article was for TV shows that I thought would make good RPGs or PBP games. This time, it’s shows that ,
if it was up to me and you tried to make these into a RPG or PBP game, i would kick you hard in the soft bits, travel back in time and watch myself kick you in the soft bits… then kick you again. Read More
Jun
12
This article was written by Katie who runs Elenlond, a free-form fantasy RPG.
When I first started play-by-post roleplaying, people just made things up as they went along. The websites where these threads took place had a roleplaying subsection with little else—there weren’t any pinned topics about races, countries, or social hierarchies. Read More
Jun
9
It was in the comments in the last StatCat article that Locke from Blue Dwarf mentioned that we could find each user’s wordcount per month. Effectively finding out who’s written the most this month, and also, who’s written the most on OngoingWorlds so far. Ever. Read More
Jun
5
The protagonists of a dozen different video games. Astoundingly all but one of them have zombies of one form or another. Read More
Jun
5
This article was written by Crimsyn from the USS Portland in Obsidian Fleet.
Meta-gaming is good
There, I said it.
I say this a lot, whether I’m playing tabletop games or play-by-post RPGs. And when I do, I’m invariably met with blank stares. After all, since Gygax first met the d20, it’s been common knowledge in the role-playing community that meta-gaming is one of the greatest sins that a player can commit. Read More
Jun
1
StatCat – Caution, may bite
StatCat has been rubbing up against my leg and leaving fur everywhere, telling me the top 10 users with the most posts throughout May. Read More
May
30
Improv!
I just recently experienced something truly fun and thought provoking at the same time on Facebook. It started off with the phrase “He walked into the bar, he found a seat and ate from the bowl of stale pub pretzels as he waited for the bartender to come his way.” and ended up being a random story about a man named Major Major and a woman with blue hair and time traveling to rebuild something called the Consulate. It was truly comedic yet it also kind of opened my eyes to a true challenge for a writer. Improvisation.
