Why We Game by Richard Tucholka

 My good friend, Richard Tucholka, wrote a guest column about why people play RPGs and other games on the Emerald City Gamefest web site: Why We Game. I first met Richard Tucholka about 20 years ago at an Order of Liebowitz game night at Oakland University inRochester, Michigan. There I really learned the craft of being a GM under his tutelage.

And there was being part of the crew of the ISCO Santa Barbara, exploring the different worlds of the Time Bagel, (Which later became the basis for Fringeworthy.) and being exposed to women gamers. At that time, the male to female ratio at the Sunday night game at the Order of Liebowitz was about 3 males to 1 female, unheard of at that time (1977). 

So read his words of wisdom, and hopefully come away a little bit wiser.

http://gamefest.wordpress.com/articles/columns-about-game-design/guest-column-why-we-game

 

Coming soon to a Broadway Theater Near You: Hamlet the Musical!

Sometimes you can't make stuff up. I've always thought that Sherwood Schwartz's take on the Hamlet would be the definitive one. But lo, on the horizon comes softly to Broadway, but none other than "Hamlet the Musical"! It's the English version of the Czech version that was created in 2000. I've listened to some of the tracks on the site and I'm not immediately impressed with the production, except for the grave diggers song, it's kind of catchy.

Here's a Youtube of part of their performance in Seol:

Still, it has nothing on the original Hamlet the Musical!