Intrigue: A secret scheme. A machination. A plot. Also, a secret love affair like that shared by young Michael and Hanna in The Reader- if you’re jaded enough to call that love. Intrigue is also the name of a Norwegian joik band, which doesn’t pertain to this article but similarly intrigue games can be a [...]

After much fanfare, and a discussion of currency between Jerrith, Squee and Oakiino (one egg will net the group 500 azurs), the trio meets their hunt leader Kyapen. Dressed in a tightly woven vest of dense of plant fibers hosting hard wood plates and other armor, his lean wiry frame looks toughened – despite the [...]

First thing: get your filthy minds out of the gutter! Skeevy net pervs!
I’m talking about play by post (PbP). Role-playing games played on message board forums where the Storyteller and players interact in and out of narrative one post at a time. It is to tabletop role-playing with a group of friends, what a [...]

Six figures with mechanical wings drifted onto the skimmer’s top deck. The avian aliens wielding strange wood and crystal staves ordered all to disarm, while their ship closed. Nevossa and his lieutenant appeared from the bridge, “My rescuers have come! You will be greatly rewarded for your aid to our clan!” Squeezil jumped into Jerrith’s [...]

… wherein you’ll catch the mind of the players.
Once upon a time, GM’s were the Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger of their gaming story, which were almost by default a species of fantasy/horror. The accursed random encounter his weapon of choice:
“What luck finding a proper privy in this dungeon. The fur-lined seat is warm and [...]

Alan fit the freshly ground metal piece into the lock’s gear system and gave it a turn as he press it in. The lower bow hold door clanked with the release of multiple internal secure bars before the door opened to the ship’s treasury. Inside were exotic spices, four sacks of multi-colored crystals, and boxes [...]

Continued from last time …
Alan and Jerrith were bond for transport once their wounds were tended. Squee, hidden in her master’s pack, watched as they were all transported away on the scaly backs of the strider beasts. Unnoticed, her small beady eyes were the only witness of the next few days across the Kyeta shiff.
They [...]