http://wig.devermore.net Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:58:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Originally published at The RPG Times (www.rpgtimes.net) in August 2001. In the final part of the Birth of an PBeM Game, planning for the future of the game and how to find players for the game once it's ready to go are discussed. In this fourth and final installment in which ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=15 Originally published July 2001, at The RPG Times Vol. 6, Iss. 7. Last month I went through the first two steps for creating a pbem game -deciding who much time I'd be willing to spend on the game, and what setting I would be using. As a recap, here's what decisions ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=13 by Lisa Hartjes Originally published June 2001, at The RPG Times Vol. 6, Iss. 6. Greetings! By the time you read this, another summer has arrived. University students are home from school and relaxing (or working at summer jobs so they can afford to go to school in the fall), high ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=12 by Lise Mendel It's one of those ideas that kept coming back to me, for years, every time I wrote up a new PC, or one of my PCs had a sexual encounter. Wouldn't it be interesting if she's pregnant? Eventually, I went ahead and ran with it... My own experience ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=11 Inspiration for this page came from a comment on rec.games.frp.misc about "what to do if you're gaming and get a contraction". It occured to me that I have the experience to answer that one... :-) My first instinct was to say that it's a non-issue. My knee jerk reaction is ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=10 Stat Adjustments during Pregnancy By Irina Rempt Stats are on a scale from 3 to 12 (3D4). 12 is the *absolute* maximum; if raising a stat takes it higher than that, it stays at 12. When Constitution or Mental Fitness reaches 0 you're dead, meaning that if you start with ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=9 !Letter Games Written by Lisa Tomihiro Introduction The Letter Game (also called Persona Letters or Ghost Letters) has been around a long time. Some writers use it to increase their ability to create realistic characters. Caroline Stevermer believes that it originated as an acting exercise, one character writting a letter "in ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=8 Home by Erol K. Bayburt SETTING Home is one of those backwater planets discovered (and named) by a bored survey scout. Neither especially rich nor particularly hostile, it is a typical example of those planets settled by splinter groups wishing to build their own version of the "perfect society". In ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=7 *Cyjqim's Manual (yes *man*-ual, it's for you males) to Playing Female Characters* by Lesslie Gibson © 1997 by Lesslie Gibson. Originally posted on the champs-L mailing list, uploaded by permission. Ok guys, I feel sorry for you, I'll break the unofficial code of silence and explain: Rule One: This ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=6 Having children changes a lot of our life, including our gaming activities. Since starting W.I.G. I've gotten a lot of e-mail which says, in effect, "I used to game a lot, but then the kids came along..." On the other hand, many members of W.I.G. have children and manage (one ... http://wig.devermore.net/?p=5