Ineffability Short Responses 27 August, 2008

Hi Mark, Chris, Cristoph, Willem, and Jake. Thanks for posting! Sorry for taking a while to get back to you.
First, some short responses. Cristoph and Willem, I owe you both a long response.
Mark W:
Yeah, absolutely. It’s totally ordinary to want external affirmation, and I wasn’t saying that “ordinary people” (whatever that means) don’t. I was [...]

Ineffability: How Role-Playing Resists Legitimacy 19 August, 2008

Impetus
I was talking on the phone with Joe MacDonald about what he wanted out of role-playing games, and why I thought that was all wrong. I’m not going to put words into Joe’s mouth, because I think he’s talking about something subtly different that I don’t totally grasp, but I will talk about trends I’ve [...]

GenCon is over 18 August, 2008

I was not able to attend this year, which made me sad, because this was the first year I was doing support / being a mentor rather than pushing my own stuff. Still, appropriate that I wasn’t there in person.
Congratulations to Tony, Elizabeth, Shreyas, Andy, Ewen, and Anna. You all rock. I hope your games [...]