Author Archives: NightLife

Changing Gears

Every GM faces a time when his campaign has to evolve or die out. Similar to that of Darwinism. A organism has to change with his environment, sorry Karen or her environment. changing gears can be down right tough. In fact with my situation I considered quitting. Especially when my star player joined the Navy. [...]

Spouses

One very consistent problem with the gaming world is the consistency where spouses hate the hobby. Now I don’t mean a dislike, or an “I don’t enjoy what your doing”. I mean a absolute hatred for what ever game you’re in be it SR, AD&D, Magic, Vampire, etc.. You get the idea. While I admit [...]

‘Getting it on’ or Sex in Role-playing

Way back in the day ’94 or ’95, round about there, White Wolf did an article about sex in role playing, correctly pointing out that, unless something is wrong with an individual, everyone at one time or another has had, thought about, dreamed about and/or fanaticized about sex. Sex. Simply put, is an integral part [...]

Myths in the Shadows

Many people involved in dark future games have come up with many preconceived notions about how things should work in a game like Shadowrun. Unfortunately many of them are just plain wrong. Some of them are based on the idea the opposition lives in a box never venturing outside to check out the world in [...]