Various and Sundry

NASA Invites You to Roll for Initiative

When I heard about a NASA RPG this weekend, I had to look it up and quickly found articles from PC Gamer and Dicebreaker as well as a post on Reddit which gets appropriately wonky. And then I went to the NASA site itself, which has the adventure and a wonderfully classic map. Basically, a dragon has stolen the Hubble Space Telescope all the way to another world and dimension… and it’s up to a…

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Various and Sundry

Dungeons, Dragons, & IP Lawyers (Yes, an OGL Post)

Given many of the folks I know, there was little chance that I wasn’t going to get bombarded by statements, screeds, and opinions about the possible changes to the Open Game License (OGL) the owner of Dungeons and Dragons currently offers and many people (including some of said folks) use. Now, there should be news as soon as tomorrow, heck, something went up as I was writing this post, but if RPGs are your jam,…

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Roll for Initiative… at a distance

I’ve been compiling the various resources and freebies that people are posting daily on the Interwebs as ways to combat the coronavirus isolation. One activity I sorely want to try in the coming weeks is delving back into some role playing games (RPGs)… and, in fact, it’s possible that might be an activity to do with my kids. So Paul Darvasi’s article for KQED is a treasure trove of ideas about how one can use…

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