Mailanka's Musings

I occasionally peruse Dell'Orto's Dungeon Fantastic; it's good stuff, and he gives me shoutouts and he's still blogging whil...

I'm an anime fan.  It's an on-again-off-again affair: usually I'll lose interest at some point, or something else will catch my ...

  I tend to follow GURPS blogs, which means I mostly read my own stuff and Toadkiller Dog's blog, because we seem to be the most active ...

Last time, we talked about alternative narrative structures. This time, I want to talk about diving deeper into your narrative, and allowing...

We've discussed a lot about narrative structures and the basics of storytelling, but "narrative" is a topic we could explore...

If you managed to stay awake in English class, you've seen this diagram: Or, at least, something like it.  This has to do with the st...

So, we know that we need to run games, so we want to get to it.  We have a rough idea of what we want, and we have at least a foundation f...

Now that you know you need to run a game to learn to run games, and that you have a vague idea of what to do, we need to organize the sessio...

On the assumption that you guys liked last week's article, here's a continuation of the series.  We talked last week about seeking...

Recently SJGames released GURPS Power-Ups 9: Attributes  and my Patrons asked me to review it, so here's my review: Never have I seen ...

@Mailanka mentioned being famous for over-prep and yet always getting a feeling of stage-fright before a session in the Tall Tales channel....

There's a comment I often get from people who have read a lot of Psi-Wars, especially from the beginning, and it goes something like thi...

Sometimes when I'm looking at my statistics, I notice that I'm getting a number of views from a particular source, such as a blog....

If we can set aside Psi-Wars for a second, I came across a video that I want to comment on before I forget it.  The video discusses essentia...

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So, previously, I had a post on making a map in general , but the problem with Psi-Wars, and space-based sci-fi in general, is that astrophy...

Making a Map Ever since Tolkien unveiled his Middle Earth with the luxurious map of his world therein, fantasy worlds have followed suit, ...

Creativity as a loop Christopher Rice (of Ravens'n'Pennies ) recently asked me to outline the process by which I've created ...

It's kinda like that. So I'm just curious. How are 300+ character point campaigns even possible? I'm a "lower decks...