Shadows and BURPS: RPGs with Kids!
Gather your family at the table with paper, pencils and dice. First tell them to draw a quick picture of themselves- stick figures are fine. On the same paper, they should draw their shadow: the...
View ArticleCABIN FEVER: Help For RPG-Frustrated New Parents
Imagine your kid is too young to care about the weather outside. Imagine (s)he’s so young (s)he won’t even notice it’s snowing, except if you stick his/her tiny nose to the window and point the strange...
View ArticleThe French Side of… RPG
I don’t know if you had the same feeling in the US, but for a while, we French RPG players were quite convinced we were the last generation of a very brief-lived phenomenon. Younger people seemed to...
View ArticleSexuality and the Geek Week: Mature Games for Mature Players? Sex & Romance...
A few months ago, I was asked by the French magazine Di6dent to discuss the specificities of being a woman in the world of RPG. We especially talked about the woman touch in game-mastering and one of...
View ArticleSexuality and the Geek Week: Sex & Romance in RPG (Part Three)
In our previous posts, we dealt about the use of romance and sex in RPG. But, as some reactions prove it, all RPGs may not be suited to such topics. Glen Taylor of Examiner wonders “What games bring...
View ArticleGeekMom Secrets Origins: Delphine Imbert
The word geek does actually exist in French. It’s even pronounced the same. But it came quite late. So did the other words depicting who I am, such as nerd. But there’s a lovely French word for “RPG...
View ArticleTeach Your Kids To Game Week
Dust off your dice, crack open those books in your basement, get some chips, drag your kids away from their iPads: It’s Teach Your Kids To Game Week! Specifically, RPGs (table-top role playing games)....
View ArticleThe GeekMoms Podcast #13 WoW, Lady Gaga and Angry Birds
In this episode Nicole Wakelin is joined once again by GeekMom Jules Sherred to talk about games, games, games! Jules has been working on putting together a fantastic assortment of panels and guests...
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Tabletop Forge Will Make Google+ Hangouts Awesome
I used to tabletop game many years ago. And then I had kids, and all my games got shoved into the back of the closet and away from swallowing and scattering little hands. These days, there are many...
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Wil Wheaton Plays Fiasco on TableTop
When Wil gets together with his friends Alison Haislip, Bonnie Burton, and John Rogers to play a game where less impulse control is a good thing, you know it will be a truly epic experience.
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