Ian O'Rourke

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126 Stories by Ian O'Rourke

You Don’t Need to Act!

At its core, this article argues that acting isn’t really what the tabletop role-playing experience is about. It can be, but in many cases...
0 9 min read

Werewolf Road Trip: Episode One

What happens when two friends who used to belong to a long-term, now broken-up gaming group start having similar thoughts about the quality of...
0 7 min read

Has role-playing become routine?

The human brain is a strange and wondrous thing. It can shift things to the foreground and background, deciding that some things are background...
1 6 min read

Games Master As A Practice

When the question ‘What is the best way to describe running a role-playing game?’ cycles around on social media, I answer that I view...
0 5 min read

Exalted: Let’s Fabula Ultima-ise

Do you know the secret about the Fantasy Avengers idea? When I considered running something last time, it was the idea I wanted to pursue. However,...
0 5 min read

Binging Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

I binged Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and it was a glorious experience.
0 7 min read

How Do You Role-Play?

Everyone approaches role-playing differently - so here is a way too consider what you actually focus on.
0 5 min read

The Acolyte and End Stage Star Wars

I never though I'd see Star Wars as creatively bankrupt as Rise of Skywalker and then along came The Acolyte.
0 9 min read

Defending Main Character Energy?

Every generation creates terms for things that are either old or new but viewed through the lens of how life works now. We’ve had...
0 2 min read

Everything Is Political

It’s a simple truth that my exposure to ‘rage’ and ‘dumb’ posts has shrunk to virtually nil since ditching X (formerly known as Twitter)...
0 7 min read