Found here. Short version: it ain’t gonna be like Lest Darkness Fall. …Completely. Maybe. L. Sprague de Camp was a pretty smart dude, after all.
Sorry. I went on a tangent, there.
Tag: pj lifestyle
My PJ Lifestyle piece on gaming a cult.
Found here. Short version: easy enough to do the robes-and-chanting-and-sacrifice sorts, but you can do better. Also, David Drake’s collection of short stories (Balefires) has a cracking good story in it (“…Than Curse the Darkness”) that should be required reading for anybody trying to do Cthulhu Mythos-style cultists. Drake absolutely sells what it would take to get people with the proper nihilism – and it’s alarming, because he actually toned down the historical record a little when doing it. Check it out.
My PJ Lifestyle article on marriage in RPGs.
Found here. Short version: hey, last weekend was my wedding anniversary. Of course I’m gonna bring up all the helpful aspects of getting your character married off. It seemed apropos.
My PJ Lifestyle piece on fixing broken campaigns.
Found here. Short version: a blown-up campaign is not always the GM’s fault, but it usually is the GM’s fault and that’s the way it goes. I tend to light-hand my campaigns, myself.
My PJ Lifestyle piece about going gonzo in your RPG campaign.
Found here. Short version: not “going Gonzo,” except that it kind of was. At least, I made the obvious joke, there.
My PJ Lifestyle piece on mash-ups.
Found here. Short version: ride the chaos, baby. Ride the chaos.
My PJ Lifestyle piece on innovating zombies in RPGs.
Found here. Short version: there’s actually a bit that you can do with zombies in your campaign, and I didn’t even get to zombie pets or metaphors for the environment. Although… a zombie campaign done in the style of the 1970s disaster movie genre could be hysterical. Polyester leisure suits, and all.
My PJ Lifestyle piece on adding a new player to your game.
Found here. Short version: it can be done easily enough, if everybody plays nice. And pardon the pun, eh?
My PJ Lifestyle article revisiting religion in RPGs.
Found here. Short version: I tried to give some practical advice on how to incorporate religions into a RPG. I mean, shoot, activist deities in most of ’em, right?
My PJ Lifestyle piece on how to have RPGs at your con.
Found here. Short version: …dedicate a space and a time for them really. And no drafts (the kind that you get from badly-designed HVAC systems).