RoBoTNiK

Some Games I've Run:

This is kind of an index to the LJ posts and web pages generated by my gaming in Boston, ca. 2001-2005. It's not complete - that would require indexing all my friends' LiveJournals too, which is a bigger job than I'm taking on - but

• The Red Madness (Adventure!) Retro sci-fi rocket pulp, with Martians, Nazis, and Ro-Kong!
  
• Setup
• Synopsis
• Unknown USA (Unknown Armies) A blood-soaked roadtrip across the secret history of old, weird America.
• Home Page
• Setup
• Session Summaries
• bryant's Dear Brother letters
  
• Starchildren (Starchildren/Hero Quest hybrid) Glam aliens in a future dystopia try to smash the state and save the world with rock and roll.
• Setup 1
• Setup 2
  
• Imaginary Synopsis (read these from bottom to top)
• Dungeon Majesty (Primetime Adventures) A game about a TV show about a game.
• Home Page
• Episode Guide
• The Recursive Meta-textual Nature of the DM Fan Community "Explained"
• Thoughts on PTA
• Battle Without Honor or Humanity (Sorcerer / Charnel Gods) Wuxia warriors at the end of the world.
• Trailer

Some Games I've Played In:

• Coming "Soon"
  

A Game I Wrote

• General Mud (1 MB ) is an Animal Farm inspired game of barnyard revolution, which won a High Ronnie award from High Ronnie himself. (See Forge discussion thread.)
  

Lexicons I've Played In:

• The original Lexicon rules by Neel Krishnaswami.
• For Want of a Nail: Alternate history lexicon.
• The Toothpaste Disaster: Semi-official Paranoia Lexicon
• Lexicon of the Lost 500 Years: A zany sci-fi-tinged Nobilis lexicon.
  

Gaming Blogs:

• The 20' by 20' Room
  . Now kind of defunct, this was to my knowledge one of the first (and to my unbiased eye, best) serious group gaming blogs out there, well before the so-called "post" Forge diaspora and the explosion of gaming blogs and forums ca. 2005-06. Here's a few of my contributions:
  • It's Getting Better
  • Games Without Frontiers (On "games about gaming.")
  • The Foucault's Pendulum RPG
  • Chad Inside (A review of Chad Underkoffler's Dead Inside rpg)
  • Paranoid Delusions (Thoughts on the return of Paranoia--this actually got me a very modest writing gig for the game.)
  • Memoir Found in a Wiki (Reflecting on the Lexicon games I've played.)
  • Keep Your Friends Close, Your Gaming Friends Closer (An idea that some found surprisingly threatening: Can gaming make us better friends?)
  • Comedy is Easy, PTA is Hard (Working through my first PTA series.)
  • Sticky Fingers (Part 1 of a series on how to run the perfect "heist" rpg. Alas, I saved all my best ideas for Part 2, and a few days after posting Part 1, I became a Daddy, so Part 2 never got written.)

Other Gaming-Related Writing:

• A little memoir of the gaming from my Boston years.
• The Deep History of RPGs (an ongoing series)
  
  • Provisional Outline
  • Dungeon Master Zero
  • R&D
    
• GILTs: A tag collecting all the "games I'd like to" posts, serious and otherwise. The closest thing to a record of my subconscious available on the internet.