Content tagged with "rpg"
This book was written by two board game experts, one of which is a professor at the NYU Game Center, which I didn’t even know was a thing. The book breaks down games into patterns – the “building blocks” of the title. It groups them into categories: Each category has between eight and 26 variations….
This is a wonderful book that investigates how role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragon’s happened. Not the mechanical history behind it, but rather how they made “the elusive shift” from wargames to a more personal experience. In particular, the seeks to answer the questions: And so on. The…
This isn’t so much a book about role-playing games as much as it’s a book about the business of role-playing games. Or, just business in general. It’s the history of D&D and Tactical Studies Rules , for sure, but from a purely business standpoint. It follows the rise of the company from something…
This is a role-playing game rulebook. I love to read these, I think because I love to put rules around domains of information, and there’s nothing as amorphous as life itself. The setting is Florence, Italy of the Italian Renaissance – the late 1400s and early 1500s. The time of Leonardo Da Vinci ….
This is a role-playing game that – hilariously – provides rules around a “televised holiday romance.” A Hallmark Christmas movie, essentially. I’m sure this is a parody…pretty sure, anyway. The rules are kinda hilarious. Characters have only three attributes: Sweaters, Cocoa, and Cheer. There are…
This is a role-playing game…sort of. It’s a “game of letters.” You and a partner write letters to each other, each playing the role of a soldier in World War 1 and someone the soldier knows back home. So, it’s not a “game,” really. It’s a…meditation? A contemplation? An experience? The mechanics –…
This is a role-playing game. I don’t really play role-playing games. I just read RPG rulebooks for fun. There’s probably some deep psychological reason for this – something about putting rules around imagination. No idea. . This book/game go me thinking about something – how you do define the line…
Wonderful book about the history of D&D and role-playing in general. The author is a journalist, and the book is both an objective history and a personal reflection. The book is…tender, in places. It discusses the subject with clear emotional history and baggage, and I loved it for that. But hidden…
