The Review Curmudgeon

I just finished this Underground Railroad play example . (8 pages, pdf.) This isn't Actual Play; it's Virtual Play, an imaginary sce...

Earthist mystics, in my Underground Railroad setting, are kind of shamanic. Through various things I've been reading lately I've exp...

The Emperor, says the Unknown Friend, is a symbol of authority - which he distinguishes from force or power. The Emperor doesn't bear a ...

A couple of posts ago I wrote that I wanted Pentasystem conflict to flow back and forth like Dogs conflict. Dogs does this through "see...

Now, you'd think that The Magician would be the symbol of magic, wouldn't you? Not according to the Unknown Friend. The Empress is t...

Here's an expansion of something I talked about in my last post. It's strongly inspired by an idea in the version I saw of Tony Dowl...

So I finally bought Dogs in the Vineyard . I'm slowly, slowly moving towards maybe playing it, though having been a late teens/early 20...