Never forget your stories It’s the time of year for reflection as I wait to see if it will be a wet or white Christmas. Finishing up the old year and a new one just around the corner, my thoughts are headed farther back than than one year. This year was the year we lost […]

Or maybe just old… … old enough to do nearly all my preliminary and initial writing on actual paper with ink pens. Technically speaking, I almost exclusively use engineering graph paper and various styles and colors of pens. I love to color-code! This is not a Luddite tirade against technology. More than once I’ve made […]

Computerized Character Generators AKA Chargen… … have saved me from an old age spent building characters with pen and pencil and calculator. I’ve never been one for min/max’ing a character design to ensure I get absolutely the most possible “stuff” for my points. Some systems are more forgiving than others with combinations and permutations galore […]

Sourcebooks Anyone? I love Role-Playing Game sourcebooks. I enjoy reading them, generally more for the “fluff” of background and character details than the “crunch” of game mechanics and probability. To me, RPGs have always been about creating a setting and characters within the overall system and sharing their stories with friends. There are many examples […]

In the beginning I starting working in libraries in elementary school. I loved it. I loved the order and organization. I loved that there was always something new to discover, even among the shelves that I thought I had memorized. I worked in the school library in junior high school and then at the community […]