Thank you for joining me in a new series of posts called Ways to Play. In these articles, I’m going to be going through mechanics in board games, looking at how they work, interesting ways they have been implemented and also looking at some of the other ways they could be used. Have you ever … Continue reading Worker Placement (Ways to Play)
Double Mattress
I'm more of a summer boy with my cider, but it wasn't designed for sharing a bed. I love you, but I'm going to kill you. Not in a horrible way! I'm going to take you somewhere cold and leave you there, Carry you if I have to, and try not to drop you with … Continue reading Double Mattress
The Girl Whose Skin Was Too Tight
Bulls make money, bears make money and pigs get slaughtered.Jim Cramer REPORT #32 – LIL' MISS SUNSHINE RESORT INCIDENT REPORT FOR HOMESTEAD LMT EXECUTIVES AND ABOVE – TREAT WITH EXTREME DISCRECTION THIS OCCURRED AT THE LIL’ MISS SUNSHINE RESORT ON THE 7/12/2011 AT [LOCATION UNDISCLOSED]. PLEASE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE PLANS CURRENTLY IN PLACE IN LIGHT … Continue reading The Girl Whose Skin Was Too Tight
Playing with time in RPGs
A few moons ago, when I was a student full of bright eyed optimism and had too much free time, me and a few friends tried out the RPG Microscope. In it, the players create a world fitting all of the players using vetos, playing out dramatic scenes in the world’s history, and designing parts … Continue reading Playing with time in RPGs
Car Radio
My lungs will fill and then deflate.Twenty One Pilots It was number 37, Red Brick Lane, no other. The man sat in his car and listened to a car radio, noises made of voices playing through, too excited for this time in the morning, too early for him to be sitting in his car, lights … Continue reading Car Radio
The Paper Saints – Dead Eden
She was an unassuming woman, tucked neatly in a corner of the town square, black hair neatly parted. The people went about their business, fixing metal and wood and concrete into useful shapes and defences. They didn’t recognise her, so they kept watching, always glancing from their work to make sure she wasn’t doing anything, anything they deemed she … Continue reading The Paper Saints – Dead Eden
Breathing Space
Based on a piece written for a written in my first year of university for my Writing for Radio module. The title, a small, cruel joke. SCENE 1 SFX INTERIOR, CHURCH. A FUNERAL DIRGE PLAYING AND COMING TO AN END Vicar: And now for a final word from Natalie. SFX FOOTSTEPS, HEELS ON STONE THEN … Continue reading Breathing Space
Timothy (The Pretty Boat)
He didn’t want to be the sickly kid. It was the term he knew they used when he wasn’t around, when he couldn’t quite make it into school. He didn’t want their jeers; he didn’t want their deepest sympathies. He watched some of the kids walking by the first-floor window, loud in the cold sunlight, … Continue reading Timothy (The Pretty Boat)
An Acrostic for William Carlos Williams
The humour is subtle; Inches slender. Judged under stringent traits; Tough officials. Smiles are yours… Inbetween Humour and verses exists Every after-thought entering night. They hang everywhere; Parades like umbra matching suns. Thoughts hanging and timed Where every real escape Is niche. Thoughts have enemies In cells; etched brains on kisses. A new day White hard ice coming home. Yellow-ochre undertone White essence reveals empty Pockets, robbed of blame and blame lost yonder. Seasons are vast interlocking notes gone. Fear or reason, Be ready, even a kid feels aches some-times. Flying on rites, giving insides vertigo. Envy Meets envy. … Continue reading An Acrostic for William Carlos Williams
Super '76
If you've ever played a game of Fiasco, you'll know the hi-jinks that can occur. They're very human, sometimes relatable, and always over the top. This is a play set I've designed to replicate the grittiness of Watchmen and the responsibility that comes with power, asking you the question "Are we the bad guys?" In … Continue reading Super '76
AF Cowlin 