"The Time Is Out of Joint": Notes on Metachrony

Humans generally look for patterns. It’s one of the things we’re good at, as a species: finding patterns in things, even when they’re not there. So it’s not particularly surprising that we look to the past to try to figure out what the fuck is going on: what is the pattern at work here?

Literary Theory, Written by: EdgarC.-E. BoylesJanuary 13, 2020Metachrony, Personal, Jorge Luis Borges, St. Augustine, My Chemical Romance, The Expanse, Say Anything, Monte Cook, NumeneraComment

The Why of a GM (a.k.a. Why I’m in Control)

I have been gaming forever, or near enough as makes no difference. My brothers and I dug up an AD&D core set back at the edge of my memory, 2000 or 2001, and knew we’d struck mithril. It was my father’s and it took us all of a heartbeat to drag him away from whatever project he was working on and get him to tell us all about it. It took us a week to get him to agree to build a campaign and another month or so to get everything ready.

Guest Writer, GamingCameron SummersJuly 29, 2019tabletop gaming, memoir, Dungeons and Dragons, Alternity, World of Darkness, Apocalypse World, Chronicles of Darkness, Monte Cook, Numenera, Invisible Sun, Call of Cthulhu, Unknown ArmiesComment