Compromise and Conceit

I have started this blog to try and describe in public some of my ideas about role-playing, particularly fantasy role-playing. I am interested in both the theory of role-playing game design and the practice of role-playing, especially refereeing. I’m also interested in some of the cultural phenomena attached to role-playing, and to the related world of computer games.

I have been refereeing role-playing games for some time, and my favourites have been set mostly in worlds I invented. I aim to describe some of these worlds here, and some of the events therein. My most recent role-playing world (outside of skype) was an Infernal Victorian steampunk world, and my intention to return to a modified version of this world will inform a lot of the material that I put on this blog. That campaign I referred to as the “Compromise and Conceit” campaign, and so hence the name of this blog.

Currently I am playing, not refereeing. Until I moved to London I was refereeing a middle-earth role-playing world set in the Fourth Age, over skype from Japan. We shall see more of that later.