Last up for the Game Review Round Robin is Elthos. I kept it for last since its not just a simple PDF of a game. Elthos is divided into two separate packages. The first is the ruleset: Elthos Core Rules. The second is the website: The Mythos Machine.
Character Growth in Games
Character Growth. There’s two general kinds, but its best dealt with as three kinds. You have dramatic growth, and you have mechanic growth. The latter can be divided into vertical growth and horizontal growth. Each of these has a place in our games, but we normally only deal with one: vertical. In fact, some games actively discourage other kinds of growth, if they allow them at all.
Game Review: Steamscapes: Asia
Game Review: Screenplay
Final Lessons of the Year
Today was the last day of English classes for my 11th and 2nd graders. In this last week classroom discipline was already falling apart. These final days are more a test of our endurance, patience, and discipline as teachers than any other, and the last thing any of us wants is for the school year to end with one of us marching students to the deputy director for behavior issues. I means, seriously, who wants that as their last memory of the school year?