Unqualified Offerings

Hugo Chavez talks a big game, but persists in half measures. The promising headline, Venezuela launches Zeppelin to tackle rampant crime!, turns out to be about mere surveillance craft. As someone on the Fate RPG mailing list wrote,
Now they need to arm them, hang biplanes from them or pack them full of monkeys. […]

Glenn Haumann has a short essay on Comixmix considering Marvel’s recent “Civil War” crossover series in light of my old “Gaudy Night” essay. Let me say briefly that “Civil War” is the kind of “literature of ethics” that should work when done well. (If you’re a non-comics reader who wants to follow along, here’s the […]

Hm. This episode . . . a Hero dies!
Which we knew from the previews. And sure enough, that’s Peter Petrelli playing Rocky Balboa’s son in the new movie they keep showing commercials for.
Plot talk would be spoilery, and G-Farb is probably planning to watch the show in 2009 or something, so I don’t want to […]

Bookmarking the rules for A Tale Unwinding here lets me close another browser tab!
UPDATE: Sad. Link is dead now. It looked so healthy even yesterday.

I have a tediously long playtest review of The Princes’ Kingdom, a roleplaying game for adults to play with kids, on RPG.Net. This seems like an appropriate place for a public thanks to Bruce Baugh for generously looking the thing over before publication. I’d never written a game review before and Bruce helped my confidence.