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A Grown-up Game Business 18 May 2013 | 04:46 am
On Facebook recently, my friend Miranda Horner — an accomplished game editor who works primarily on Dungeons & Dragons for Wizards of the Coast — posted this: I want my chosen industry, the tabletop g...
Survival Heroism 28 Mar 2013 | 08:02 pm
In the new Tomb Raider, Lara Croft’s journey from survivor to action star to heroine (or antiheroine, but we’ll get to that) takes her through horrors visceral and terrestrial, mundane and extraordina...
#TableTop Returns 25 Mar 2013 | 10:04 pm
Geek & Sundry’s fun and fantastic series about games and gamers, TableTop, is returning for a new season of episodes as soon as April 4th. This is wonderful and welcome news. Host and producer Wil Whe...
Conversations That Count 21 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
In a post sketching out an Indiana Jones game I’d like to play, I mentioned that I’d like to see it incorporate “conversations that count.” This isn’t an innovative idea, I know, except maybe for the ...
Indiana Jones and the Game of Destiny 20 Mar 2013 | 05:27 pm
I’ve enjoyed a slew of Indiana Jones video games, like The Fate of Atlantis and The Emperor’s Tomb, but I haven’t played the Indiana Jones video game I really want right now. It doesn’t exist. Yet wit...
What I Want in the Next Tomb Raider 19 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
More than anything, the new Tomb Raider game makes me enthusiastic for another game in the series that takes the best from this new vision and jettisons the game’s meanest elements. The result might b...
More Harrowing Than Fun: A Tomb Raider Review 18 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
If you’d asked me before, I would’ve been skeptical. Another gritty reboot, this time of Lara Croft, a character whose confidence and poise under pressure was part of the hook? I know people who hated...
At the Feet of Giants 17 Sep 2012 | 10:40 pm
This weekend I ran the first session of an ongoing campaign-in-miniature set in Middle-earth, using the game rules from Francesco Nepitello’s The One Ring (TOR). In the parlance of play, I’m hacking a...
Milestone 4 Sep 2012 | 07:25 am
It’s been a while, Gameplaywriters, and I apologize for that. New high-stress job, move to a new city, and all that. But LinkedIn just reminded me of something that I wanted to drop in and memorialize...
State of Affairs or State Fairs or Something 26 Aug 2012 | 10:48 pm
Just a quick update for those of you who have noticed that Gameplaywright’s blog has left fallow for months: Things are afoot here at GPW but we’ve shifted from a short-term view to a long-term view f...
