Here’s the final part of the Silent Hill 2 post series. Enjoy. Guilty James (Continued): The structure of the game’s narrative is important because of the “need of translatability” for conveying psychologically-motivated stories to James and...

The GM’s gotten everyone around the table – characters rolled, feats selected, classes discussed so the party’s as cohesive as it’s going to get.  The coffee’s re-filled in everyone’s cups.  The GM spins a story, lays out the...

Normally my characters are fairly smart. I like being able to have an excuse to out-think NPCs in a game. I find it enjoyable. And then there are times when I just need to hit things. Guess what this is a story about? I was playing a...

One of the fantastic things about being a gamer are the communities that we create as we join together in celebration of shared, nerdy interests. Especially in this digital age, almost every nerd-centric thing out there has some sort of community...

As some of you may know a couple of us Princesses have gotten to playtest Psychological Warfare this Con Season. Yesterday DPH Games started their very first Kickstarter and needs your help to publish the game. All of the money for his Kickstarter...

I’ve been playing Neverwinter for close to four months now and I’m still enjoying it as much as I did in the beginning, if not more so. Part of that is the whole joining a guild thing. If you remember, back when I first wrote about the...

My players are way smarter than I am. “Oh, but Elle, you’re so smart,” you say. I can hear it all the way over here. Don’t worry. I know I’m not as brain-addled as I seem. But as bright as I am, I seem to have found...

Ever have one of those moments when everything is falling apart around you, when all your careful plans are out the window and there’s nothing left to do but break down and laugh hysterically? Okay, maybe that’s a little extreme, but I ran one...

Whew, baby. Let me tell you about this game I backed on Kickstarter known as Broken Age, formerly known as DoubleFine Adventure. We know this Kickstarter project was a Big Dang Deal from the day it was funded above and beyond imagination (over 3...

“You walk into the Necromancer’s lair. The air is putrid and stale, and you can’t see more than a few inches in front of your face.” “Somebody got a torch?” “I have one. I’ll light it.” “The the torch illuminates the...

Two years ago, almost to the day, the Double Fine Adventure Game Kickstarter funded at 833% of the goal amount it had asked for, smashing all sorts of Kickstarter records. A little while back, Act One of the Double Fine Adventure–called BROKEN...

Let’s state this up front: I consider myself a feminist. I strongly believe women deserve the same opportunities as men and have the right to determine the course of their own lives. We’ve come a long way, baby,...