Fandomlife – Page 7 – Thoughtful Fandom

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

S7 – The Black Cabin

Welcome to the seventh set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...

Ian O'Rourke
Jun 16, 2022 3 min read

Sayonara Critical Role

I sense a journey I’ve been on since the second half of 2015 is coming to an end. That journey is being someone who...

Ian O'Rourke
Jun 12, 2022 5 min read

Done With Fandom Discourse

I woke up at somewhere between five and six in the morning, which is something that seems to be happening these days. I’m hoping...

Ian O'Rourke
Jun 5, 2022 5 min read

After The Dice Drop

The tools, techniques and key moments after the dice dropped that contributed to a campaign's success.

Ian O'Rourke
Jun 3, 2022 7 min read

Playing Blades in the Dark

We played Blades in the Dark. Three days. Nine sessions. It was awesome. My thoughts on the experience.

Ian O'Rourke
Jun 1, 2022 9 min read

S6 – The Sea Hag

Welcome to the sixth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...

Ian O'Rourke
May 30, 2022 4 min read

Accepting YouTube Failure

I am writing this on the same day I released a new YouTube video. It was the first one I’d released in three months....

Ian O'Rourke
May 29, 2022 3 min read

The Left Behind

While travelling I tend to have time to think. One of the things I got thinking about is what it must feel like to...

Ian O'Rourke
May 22, 2022 6 min read

Before The Dice Drop

The tools and techniques we used before the dice dropped that contributed to a campaign's success.

Ian O'Rourke
May 20, 2022 10 min read

The Literal Extremists

Did you know you are a psychopath? I bet you didn’t. I also bet you didn’t know that some of the life choices you’re...

Ian O'Rourke
May 15, 2022 3 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 the tabletop role-playing experience independently? Well, they eventually start voicing... Read More

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 routines, not worthy of our attention. When this happens, it... Read More

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 it as a practice. This response is often unique compared... Read More

How Do You Role-Play?

The Storytelling Spectrum

A Star Wars Campaign

The Conversations The Thing

The Acolyte and End Stage Star Wars

Dragons, College Sex and Violence

25th Century Trek

The Last of Us

Exalted: Let’s Fabula Ultima-ise

Exalted: One’s Fate. Forever And All Time

Exalted: Traits And The Great Curse

Exalted: A Discussion On Rules

Defending Main Character Energy?

All Stories

S7 – The Black Cabin

Sayonara Critical Role

Done With Fandom Discourse

After The Dice Drop

Playing Blades in the Dark

S6 – The Sea Hag

Accepting YouTube Failure

The Left Behind

Before The Dice Drop

The Literal Extremists