FATE & Destiny RPG

I reckon that many of us discover roleplaying games during the years that we are at university or college. It's that time of our lives when we are discovering anything new, and our minds are most open to diverse possibilities. So it was with myself. My early D&D games were memorable. They most often are. I remember my first character: Rath, the Fighter. I was reading the Conan stories at that time, so Rath was really a Conan-clone - but soon, I made him more than that. Rath survived the Slave Pits of the Undercity and the Lost Temple of Tharizdun - only to come undone (as many did) in the dreaded Tomb of Horrors . It wasn't long before I was trying my hand at Game Mastering, and with that came my first attempt at creating my own world - The Kartoumian Spheros . Thinking back this weekend about that world led me to search through some old paper files I hadn't looked at for many years. In there, I found the original map I drew for this world (in early 1983), and h...

“Study the past if you would define the future.”  ―  Confucius It seems like I've been roleplaying forever. When I was 8 years old, I played the role of puppeteer and put on shows in my garage. When I was 10, I made slide-show movies that told epic stories that involved my friends as both actors and investors (as we then charged the local kids to come to my garage to see the finished products!). That same year, I started my first travelling theatre company and we took our production, The Box , from class to class eliciting screams and laughter from a slightly captive audience (yes - it was a horror-comedy). I was hooked. Not so much on the acting side of things - though that was enjoyable and rewarding in itself - but on the notion of creating something out of nothing. What drew me in was being able to create worlds and stories; the only limitation being size of stage, location, or production budget (which was usually no more than a few dollars). I read voraciously...