Tag: Babylon 5
RPG Meta-plot: is it needed?
Meta-plot is one of those concepts that you either love or hate. Basically, the term is often used in RPGs and elsewhere to describe an over-arcing plot-line or extended storyline. You can see examples of meta-plot in the media too – the Shadow War in Babylon 5, Lucifer rising in Supernatural. Game of Thrones is…
GM Burnout
“It’s better to burn out than fade away!” The Kurgan, Highlander I think there comes a time when everyone “burns out”, creatively speaking – be it storytelling, writing or GMing. I feel it every few years when I’m running RPGs, and I reckon I’m not alone in experiencing it. Creativity isn’t like a tap –…
Dark Age of Technology
Seriously, that’s what its starting feel like. We’re continually bombarded with information on the news with absolutely no way of checking the veracity. Nowadays all that is important are rumours and speculation; instead of informed and objective reporting. Often on the news there are “people on the ground” or “as it happens” who are asked…
Happy New Year 2011
Note: those of you who remember or have seen Babylon 5 will (hopefully) recognise this sort of summary; a sort of foreshadowing. It was the dying gasps of 2010: a month had hung on too long for everyone. The chaos of the big freeze has left us cold, leaving us all bad-tempered and charity was…