How Do You Role-Play?

Everyone approaches role-playing differently - so here is a way too consider what you actually focus on.
Ian O'Rourke
Jul 28, 2024 5 min read

The Storytelling Spectrum

The storytelling spectrum and big 'S' and little 's' storytelling in role-playing games.
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 31, 2023 9 min read

A Star Wars Campaign

The idea for this post came when watching the first live stream from Star Wars Celebration which will still...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 8, 2023 8 min read

The Conversations The Thing

Learning from some relatively recent rpg reading I've learned the quality of my rpg experience is all about the...
Ian O'Rourke
Jan 16, 2023 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...
Ian O'Rourke
Jul 19, 2024 9 min read

Dragons, College Sex and Violence

Fourth Wing, the best selling young adult novel of military college, dragon riders, action and romance.
Ian O'Rourke
Mar 4, 2024 5 min read

25th Century Trek

The brutal honesty regarding Star Trek: Picard season three is I didn’t need it to exist. I enjoyed season...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 22, 2023 8 min read

The Last of Us

This week I finished watching HBO’s The Last of Us. I have little doubt that it’s going to be...
Ian O'Rourke
Mar 18, 2023 7 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...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 10, 2024 5 min read

Exalted: One’s Fate. Forever And All Time

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Ian O'Rourke
Feb 10, 2024 5 min read

Exalted: Traits And The Great Curse

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Ian O'Rourke
Jan 11, 2024 6 min read

Exalted: A Discussion On Rules

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 15, 2023 8 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 many of them around...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 27, 2024 2 min read

All Stories

Tuning Into Wednesday

Little did I know I would be stepping into a nightmare. Full of mystery, mayhem, and murder. I think I’m going to love it...
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 18, 2022 4 min read

Approaching Scum & Villainy

These days I like to choose games to run where the challenge is in the execution not in just memorising the rules. This tends...
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 11, 2022 7 min read

Epic Alaska (2023)

I’ve wanted to go to Alaska since 2019. I figured the easiest way to experience some of it was a cruise so that was...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 27, 2022 3 min read

The Perfection of Andor

I’d always had high hopes for Andor and I had those confirmed when I watched the first three episodes and talked about my hopes...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 26, 2022 5 min read

Facebook, Strike One. Twitter, Strike Two.

It’s been an interesting time since returning from my cruise on 22nd October. The interest being I may be witnessing my second disengagement from...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 17, 2022 6 min read

Bolstering The Finances

I can’t be the only one who reacted in a certain way after the What The Actual Fuck mini-budget? Within 24-48 hours I started...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 12, 2022 6 min read

Bourne-tastic Vampire Thriller

We recently came back from CottageCon, our weekend of gaming. It was a unique experience in that this was a CottageCon with the smallest...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 8, 2022 7 min read

Fourteen Days at Sea

Last weekend I got off the cruise ship Iona, having spent 14-days on a cruise down to the Canary Islands and back. This is...
Ian O'Rourke
Oct 29, 2022 6 min read

The Challenges of Online Play

Since the death of the gaming group, my pattern of actual play is changing. It’s switched from regular, long-form play to two alternate methods....
Ian O'Rourke
Oct 20, 2022 12 min read

What The Actual Fuck!

This week has been a hard week. I’m not talking officially depressed hard, but it’s been challenging. I was ill at the start of...
Ian O'Rourke
Oct 2, 2022 5 min read
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