I’m at the beginning stages of designing my first “real” game. While I’ve made an attempt once before as part of a Game Chef contest (how could this English/Theatre major resist a theme like Shakespeare in 2011? Even when I had NO CLUE what I was doing), this is the first time I’m trying...
Read more →I don’t know of a single role playing group that hasn’t at some point wished they were recording their antics. Impassioned speeches, out of control jokes, and epic battles make strong impressions, but inevitably the memory fades, and weeks or months or years later you’re going “Remember that speech you gave in character awhile...
Read more →So, you want to be a podcaster. Great! Wondering where to start? Look no further! A little about my podcasting credentials: I’ve been podcasting for about two years now, predominantly recording actual play games for the Fandible.Com Roleplaying Podcast (if you’ve read pretty much any post I’ve ever made here, you’ve heard of Fandible by...
Read more →As the daughter of a costumer, I had some awesome dress up clothes and Halloween costumes as a kid. I also learned from a very early age about the adage “the clothes make the man.” As my mom wasn’t only the seamstress for these costumes, but more often than not designing costumes for casts that...
Read more →One of the coolest things about the Google+ gaming community is hearing about all sorts of games I had no idea existed – and then getting to interact with their creators. Not too long ago I, along with the Fandible crew, got to have such an experience playing Maschine Zeit (brought to you in part...
Read more →I’ve played a lot of different characters over the last ten years. Widows, teenagers, vampires, leaders of empires, and traitors. It’s part of the fun of role playing, right? Getting to be someone that you most emphatically are not. Yet there is one thing, I realized recently, that every single character of mine has...
Read more →Welcome to the fourth installment of Dear Gaming As Women! We invite our readers to asks us anything – and we’ll do our best to offer informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining answers. In today’s letter, a reader who hasn’t GMed in a long time asks how to do so in a group with women, including new...
Read more →The upcoming video game Aliens: Colonial Marines, based on the Alien franchise, currently has no female player character options. With several months to go before release, a petition has been started to advocate for at least one female character to play in a game based on a franchise well-known for its female protagonists. – Angela This...
Read more →For the past two years, 99% of my gaming has been recorded and put on the internet for posterity (that remaining one percent is the odd con-game or game-we-played-while-too-drunk-to-be-coherent). Playing for a podcast has a whole set of challenges and rewards, with the number one being the fact that there is an Audience. An...
Read more →My gaming group rotates games and GMs almost weekly. We have at least half a dozen ongoing campaigns, and numerous other one-shot games under our belts. My on-going game is Hollow Earth Expedition – a pulp adventure game that I fell in love with last summer at the Origins Game Fair. For those unfamiliar...
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