Monthly Archives: February 2009

Let the Lessions begin again.

Here we go again. I know it has been a long time; but yours truly has been having a busy and altogether good life. Almost eight years ago I proposed to the woman who became Mrs. NightLife on June 9 2001. Then my son was born on April 20 2008. As I learned, there is [...]

‘Happyland’

Happyland is a term I came up with to describe the kind of a world that a munchkin wants to play in. It’s a generic term to give a catchall idea of the qualities which munchies like to have intrinsic within the game realms they wander in whether it’s Sci-Fi like Star Wars or Fantasy [...]

Faith in Role-playing

Today in many games especially games like Shadowrun it has become the way for the games to work is to choose one religion over another as the correct way things in the universe. In SR it is the pagan religions that turn out to be correct and expressed throughout the games and the characters within. [...]

Amateur or Pro?

Are you an Amateur or a Pro? Many games of Shadowrun consist of activities and behaviors that would make most Pros vomit on the ground if they had to stand by and watch what’s going on. Now you may tell yourself, well my character’s a pro. He’s survived a lot of jobs and has really [...]

Dealing with the ‘parasite’ or unwelcome Player

As any gamemaster for a serious length of time can tell you sometime you get a player who isn’t welcome and just doesn’t get the message. Meaning that somehow either the player is a significant other, a fly by night player or someone who just doesn’t want to be polite and then after a while [...]