The Tao of D&D

In my younger days, I played a lot of sports: baseball, hockey, soccer, football... all pretty much except basketball, which I have zero tal...

In this part two post about affordances, part 1 here , I'll use three more basic games as structural models for a different approach to ...

Sort of catching my breath today. Moved over to working on the March Lantern, which will probably be late, not because of this work this mon...

Watching this lecture introducing algorithmic game theory , I feel a small amount closer to defining what's wrong with D&D, as a gam...

This post occurred to me while doing dishes with my partner Tamara, talking about video games.  The conversation reminded me of a comment f...

Rule #1 of achieving immersion is not wanting to die. Give that a moment to sink in.  I haven't said "in the game" yet.  That...

Accounting. If there's anything that is seen as a watchword for not fun, it is having to keep track of fun things.  Yet as much as bot...

Now, if you can keep the last post in your mind, I believe the ground work has been laid for this post. I was told by François Laroche th...

Before reading this post, be sure and read this . Let's suppose that everything you've done as a participant in your chosen role-p...