Apotheosis of the Invisible City

A gaming blog discussing my thoughts and impressions on tabletop RPG gaming in general, and my GURPS Renaissance-tech campaign in particular.

30 September 2014

Tidbits: Special Snowflake -- A Modest Rant

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"Special snowflake" is a term in common use on a number of gaming forums.  For those of you unfamiliar, it's a slur hurled...
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24 September 2014

Tidbits: ... and so are you.

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A common slur flung around in gaming debates is “Elitist!” You take pains to design a coherent, sensible setting?  Elitist!  You think peopl...
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17 September 2014

Gaming slang

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Silly is good, I find, in small doses: it breaks up the mental palate.  Some time ago, I had cause to compile some of the insider slang ...
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15 September 2014

NPC of the Day: Eve

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I’ve watched a few war-related series of late: Band of Brothers, The Pacific .  My favorite is Tour of Duty , a critically-acclaimed Vietna...
11 September 2014

Mountain-combing 101

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My current party just got out of a jaunt into the mountains, deep in the backcountry ... a semi-lawless area much like Appalachia, with isol...
07 September 2014

Why Play Tabletop RPGs At All?

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It's a valid question, and one I've fielded more than once.  Even discounting the teeth-grating bastardization of the honorable te...
31 August 2014

How To Fix Religion In Your Game

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It's long been a truism that gamers dislike playing clerics.  Most clerical PCs are the result of "We have to have one of everyth...
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Northampton, MA, United States
Hello there; I'm Bob Traynor. I've been gaming since the 70s, when me and my high school friends Laurey and Marilyn went on a whirlwind 10-hours-a-day-three-straight-days run through the wild and intense world of the Empire of the Petal Throne. Since then I've played RPGs; GMed RPGs; run tournaments; been a convention speaker; written for SJ Games, Iron Crown, Gamelords and Mayfair; designed a homebrew; playtested RPGs; moderated the gaming tracks at Worldcons ... this is one of the enduring things I've done in my life. Down through the years, I've had some strong opinions. Read this blog, and you'll have some of them inflicted upon you.
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