October 2012
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Idiot Ball
Here’s a little idea I had while browsing over the TV Tropes wiki: Idiot ball. So you have a game with a bunch of PCs who all want different things. Sitcoms or cartoons or the like give you a host of characters who are sometimes in conflict but sometimes working together toward some other goal.…
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[Not Exactly Gaming] How do you preserve our culture in the face of an apocalypse?
My father-in-law asked me as a thought experiment what technologies I’d use to preserve civilization in the face of an apocalypse or societal collapse. This is the answer I gave him, which may have gotten out of hand. If nothing else, it was entertaining to me to write and gave me a few cool seeds…