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Grace Under Pressure

nedjer — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:01:41 +0000

At the point when the original RPG was first being developed the game was, for the most part, a movable feast of continual RPG homebrewing and invention. This was hardly surprising, as the game’s designers and GMs had to rely as much on their own imaginations as on the short, moving-target of a [...]

RPGs and Enterprise

nedjer — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:25:06 +0000

There are plenty of pages on the site about the benefits of RPGs in learning and teaching – plus links to a certain amount of related research. However, these benefits are mainly set out in the language of active learning, gamification and/ or design gaming. Within all that, design games, (i.e. games focused [...]

Old School and Play School

nedjer — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:22:15 +0000

Quick post:

Just added basic Adventurer/ PC sheets in .doc format to the Old School resources page – with more variants and fuller sheets on the way. They’re good-to-go for Corruption, Renegade, Swords and Wizardry, OSRIC and the likes. Thanks to Tim Bisaillon over at the Old School Gamers group for [...]

Bluefishworks Posters

Thistle — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:41:20 +0000

Bluefishworks is a UK-based company offering a range of high-quality art and design posters. They also sell a wide selection of art and design books, as well as ‘art packs’ containing multiple copies of various famous works of art for passing round classes.

Our interest is in the posters, because they [...]

Tabletop RPGs: Treasure v1.4

Thistle — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:35:48 +0000

Version 1.4 of free tabletop fantasy RPG Treasure has just been released in xHTML. The game offers a full fantasy RPG at zero cost. Treasure is also a Graphic RPG, which lets players choose to display some, or all, skills, actions and events as images, icons or gestures.

New Features

Streamlined and greatly [...]

RPGs Were Always Going To Beat Brain Training

Thistle — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:01:57 +0000

The BBC report on further evidence that Brain Training software is of very limited value is here. This may sound like bad news for encouraging the use of games in homes, schools and libraries. It is to some extent, because the headlines may be remembered and held up as evidence against any use [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

Thistle — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:39:00 +0000

WOW @Aviary is now FREE? http://bit.ly/aviaryfree #

Online graphics suite Aviary can now be accessed for free from here: