Our second session of Don't Rest Your Head really hums. By now we had a strong grasp of the mechanics and started seeing some of the very intense situations that can result. Dan is the GM. Jen plays Samantha Hopkins, a stoner searching for The Perfect

Kevin, CJ, and Dan (with a special summary by Brandon) sit down to discuss the age old problem of Metagaming. Specifically, how it doesn't seem to be near the problem it once was, and in fact is a necessary component of many games. We break down many time

Real Life(tm) reared it's ugly head the past few weeks and really put a cramp on our gaming schedules. Don't Rest Your Head was supposed to be a two session Halloween Special. We did character creation the week before Halloween, and then couldn't play aga

This Episode was inspired by a rather heated argument I got into on the gaming news website Shacknews. It exemplifies the clash between traditional and hippy philosophies of game design. Kevin, Dan, CJ, and Brandon gather round to discuss the role of Soci

Kevin, Dan, and CJ gather 'round the balefull gaze of the Walking Eye this week to discuss some of the core components to Conflict Resolution: declaring Task and Intent, and then following that up with Stake Setting. What kinds of changes do these techniq

Our first discussion episode! Kevin, Dan, Jen, and CJ gather 'round The Walking Eye to discuss our recently completed run of The Grey Ranks by Jason Morningstar. It was an interesting and educational experience, one that we'd recommend to anyone. Crunchy

I managed to put some serious editing time in this weekend and have a lot of content to put out there. First off we have Session 3 of our Grey Ranks game. In this session, things really pick up the pace as two characters (Yankee and Xero played by Brando

Session 2 Covers chapters 3 through 5. The end of Chapter 3 hums along quite nicely, and we were having fun throughout. Just one more session and we'll have this tragic tale of tumultuous teenaged trama tied together! I make no apologies for my alliterat

We start things of with a bang: Grey Ranks by Jason Morningstar. Overall I think the session went really well! My only real concern is we might not have framed appropriate scenes for the chapters we were on. As one player said "We're somewhere right betwe