Castles & Crusades is a role playing game that will have old-timers sighing with nostalgia, but it's flexible enough to handle whatever your players might want to do.

Silvervines Games' tagline, "Who do you want to play today?" gets to the essence of the system. In this review I'll talk about that, and my experience with the system.

Creating a Solipsist character can be a challenge. Once you have your Vision, you need to pick elements of that Vision to be the Obsessions that will fuel her reality changes. I'll present some advice based on watching newcomers create characters.

A report of my first time running Battlestations with my regular gaming group. This gives a good feel for what the game is like, and I'll talk a little about the complexities of running the game.

Battlestations is a game that defies easy categorization. A short description is likely to put off role players and board gamers both. This review attempts to describe what it is, and why you really should be playing it.

Dr. Sinister was a convention wide spy game Dave Radzik and I created for AnCon. I wanted to talk about the process of creating and running a game like this, for people who might want to do the same.

Newcomers to role playing sometimes have trouble figuring out what their character would do in a given situation. Here are some different approaches players often take.

Role playing in general has tremendous educational possibilities, but LARPing is an untapped gold mine for kids to learn about the events and motivations that have made history.

Love GMing, but having trouble finding enough time in the day for everything you need to do? Here are tips that might help those of you who can�t devote 100% of your time to gaming.

Have a great idea for a scenario in some historical period? These tips can help you to make the scenario that much more authentic for your players.