Once per week we go behind the bar at Apathy Games and discuss gaming in more personal terms and ask you to respond. The best response will be featured the following week. This week we deviate from our normal personal post to bring you an idea that we thought was to hilarious not to share. [...]

Once per week we go behind the bar at Apathy Games and discuss gaming in more personal terms and ask you to respond. The best response will be featured the following week. A couple of years back I was coming down the GMing bug but I was lacking some good inspiration as to where to [...]

Once per week we go behind the bar at Apathy Games and discuss gaming in more personal terms and ask you to respond. The best response will be featured the following week. We’ve all had that encounter, either done on such an epic scale that the GM just chose to use little note cards to signify the [...]

Once per week we go behind the bar at Apathy Games and discuss gaming in more personal terms and ask you to respond. The best response will be featured the following week. As we mentioned last week our weekend took us to a home coming of sorts at PAX: Prime.  Where we spent a weekend [...]

Once per week we go behind the bar at Apathy Games and discuss gaming in more personal terms and ask you to respond. The best response will be featured the following week. By the time you’ve started reading a blog about Savage Worlds, you’ve probably been around the roleplaying block and played your share of [...]

I pondered this question for several days before writing this post, and came up with a lot of examples of historical figures I’d never want to game with. Ganges Khan, for one. In the end, though, I’m forced to say that I would like to share my gaming table with The Bard. Yes, Shakespeare, though I don’t believe he gets any bardic music abilities, which is a real shame.

Jeff quietly pointed out that the community at large made some great material that he’d used himself and dismissing it all as not working wasn’t quite the best route.

Recently my brain has been mulling over Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe. In which the author, with the breathless excitement of Wired writers, explains how “the power of the crowd” is going to eventually produce everything and change the shape of business. While I do agree with the points made thus far (I’m about half way [...]

Once a week we go behind the bar at Apathy Games and discuss gaming in more personal terms and ask you to respond. The best response will be featured the following week. Bold and daring adventures every week are the heart of Roleplaying. They’re also the heart of Television. As such, it would seem a [...]

Part of me feels like a jerk for even thinking about writing this post, for the story I’m about to tell involves a man who was really trying to make a gaming group work, despite shortcomings. I don’t fault him, but the play area he was responsible for came out of a nerd horror show.