UPDATE: Another cool collaborative world building system, from Fred Hicks. It’s light, and seems similar to the wikidot “each person has 12 beads” system.
Humor:
Liberal Fascism, Year’s best posts, Tom Tomorrow comics (mondays), Kevin Moore comics, they’re out to get me!, Pax in oxen, peeing (Ben’s story), ideal job (for Kristen), New time management system, The evil of florists
To investigate?
There Will be Blood (movie)
The Name of the Wind– Patrick Rothfuss
Catherynne Valente: The Orphan’s Tales Vol I: In the Night Garden
Freedom’s Apprentice and Fires of the Faithful by Naomi Kritzer
The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
Lonely Werewolf Girl, Martin Millar
Investigate: Laurie Marks (Delan the Mislaid, The Moonbane Mage, and Ara’s Field)
Bill James: Girls and Wolves of Memory
Game Night by Johnny Nexus
Gaea: Beyond the Son, by P. D. Gilson
Reviews
Play Unsafe about improving improv skills, Covert Action, like Mafia or Werewolf.
Scalzi’s best posts of the year, The Sagan Diary
25 words or less (party game)
RPGs: New Sites: Encounter a day, of Dice and Dragons, Kill the Wizard First, Black Dragons, Knife fight!
Useful tool: RPG Weather
SotC: Build your setting w/ player aspects
Pulp figures
Greg Stoltze’s How to Play Roleplaying Games (zipped PDF). A short PDF with great examples of solid roleplaying, common problems players and groups have and more. Well worth the read for experienced players– and invaluable for helping to explain why we like this hobby.
Civics/Politics
Civics for Canadians, John Edwards interview, President’s daughter, USAspending.gov, American health care
Other:
fun, light reviews, Mechaton mecha, ready to buy.
Good turkey burger recipe, Salt roasted pork
Cool textures for web design
Carcassone Online
A mushy story
