| Essays |
| The essays on this site are of two specific types. Some of them are essays on specific aspects of role-playing games and how to cope with, enhance, or avoid them. The rest are what I call "How to Run Game X" essays, and focus on a specific game. I am always looking for new essays to put on my site, and whereas I once had lots of time to write them myself, now I'm fairly busy much of the time. As such, I'm happy to review and post other folks' essays. If you're interested, drop me an email and I'll tell you the process. Just to answer an obvious question up front: Sorry, I don't pay for essays. About the best I can offer by way of reward is some constructive feedback on your writing and the chance to see your essay up here on my site, for whatever that's worth to you. All of the essays I've written are my own work and no reproduction of any kind is allowed or implied without my express consent. If you want to print out a copy to give to your players, that's fine, but don't post these essays on other sites and don't sell them to anyone, especially as you're own work. If you have an idea for an essay, but don't want to write it yourself, I'd love to hear it. |
| Role-Playing Essays |
| How to Run Game X |
| Starting From Scratch - BHM Atmosphere - BHM Breaking the Character Rut - Mercurial When Things Go Horribly Wrong - BHM The Care and Feeding of NPCs - BHM The Top 10 Myths About Girl Gamers - Mercurial Developing a Story - BHM Pulling the Trigger - Winter_Heart McFarland's Principle of Powerful Cardboard - Jonathan McFarland Tickling the Muse - BHM What Makes a Beautiful Player? (1) - BHM What Makes a Beautiful Player? (2) -BHM Con Artistry - BHM Holding it All Together - BHM Gaming in the Wake of Tragedy - BHM The Ultimate Responsibilty - BHM First Among Equals - Winter_Heart First-Time Players - BHM Living with Lady 10-Sider - BHM Accuracy - BHM The Long and the Short of It - Craig Oxbrow Lovely and Talented Assisstants - BHM The End of the Dream - BHM Failure is Not an Option - BHM Information Wants to Be Free - BHM The Myth and the Mystery - Ian Price Single Serving Adventures - BHM |
| Aeon Continum games: How to Run Adventure! - Craig Oxbrow How to Run Aberrant - Winter_Heart How to Run Trinity - Craig Oxbrow World of Darkness 1.0: How to Run Vampire: The Masquerade - Cutch How to Run Changeling: The Dreaming - Beth Kinderman How to Run Wraith: The Oblivion - BHM How to Run Hunter: The Reckoning - Aaron Dembski-Bowden World of Darkness 2.0: How to Run Vampire: The Requiem - BHM How to Run Werewolf: The Forsaken - BHM Other Games: How to Run All Flesh Must be Eaten - BHM How to Run Exalted - Peter Schaefer Want to write one of these? Here are the guidelines! |