Tag: gaming
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Games Workshop’s 2022 40k Narrative Event AAR (Part 1)
I just got back from Albuquerque, NM where Games Workshop hosted a Warhammer 40k Narrative event over the weekend. I’m going to split the After Action Review into two parts: part one will be the overall event and what I saw, heard, and experienced as far as the event itself, part two will focus on…
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Author’s Toolbag: Gaming Part Two
In Part One, I talked about some general ways in which gaming can help a writer. Here in Part Two, I’ll go into more specifics of how running (or playing) a roleplaying game can help you, the author, in developing your world, improving your characters, and building your plot. Roleplaying Games (RPGs) are a variety…
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Author’s Toolbag: Gaming Part One
As an author, particularly a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, there’s not a lot of ways to draw directly from real-world experience to determine what is “real” in my writing. There are a number of methods to deal with that, to fill out a world, to get a feel for how things work. World-building, of…
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Computer Games: Modern Space Simulations
As I said in my last post, space simulation games, such as X Wing, Wing Commander, and Freelancer, have basically been a thing of the past. RPGs such as Mass Effect or MMORPGs like Eve Online or Star Wars The Old Republic dabble a bit in this area, but these oftentimes come back to character…
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Counter Culture, Identity, and Nerds
I won’t ever forget the time that I heard someone tell me that I wasn’t really a nerd. This came as quite a shock to me, let me assure you. At the time, I was GMing an ongoing D&D campaign which had run two full years, playing once or twice a week for that entire…
Kal Spriggs 