Game Night is my first novel, a tale of six roleplaying gods and their hopelessly dysfunctional game.

The Slayers Guide To Games Masters: This guide - a very tongue-in-cheek guide that tells players everything they need to know to make their games masters life a misery - was a parody of Mongoose Publishing's popular Slayers Guide line.

VALKYRIE 22

Would You Let An Orc Babysit Your Baby?: Each issue of Valkyrie had a particular theme, and this issue's theme was aliens and other races. I discussed how a setting - either fantasy or science fiction - would be altered by having non-human sentient races that differed fundamentally from human beings in biology, intelligence and levels of agression. This article was later republished in electronic format here.

VALKYRIE 23

The theme for this issue was "conspiracies", and my article discussed the difficulties I'd had in the past when attempting to get to grips when roleplaying this genre. This article was later republished in electronic format here.

VALKYRIE 24

The theme for this issue was "history", and my article discussed (with examples from my own, not entirely successful, roleplaying past) what we might mean by "history" when discussed in the context of a roleplaying game. This article was later republished in electronic format here.

VALKYRIE 25

The theme for this issue was "crime and crime fighting", and my untitled article discussed how my first ever roleplaying experience went horribly wrong when my character was accused of a very serious crime. This article was later republished in electronic format here.

VALKYRIE 26

This issue had no theme, so I wrote an article teling the story of how I spent rather more than I'd planned at the Warpcon charity auction. This article was later republished in electronic format here.

What James N. Frey Thinks About Roleplaying: In which I take some of the advice given in a very good book I got about novel writing, and - since many people describe roleplaying as "a group of people interactively writing a novel" - see how typical roleplaying sessions match up. (Hint:- It ain't good).

Why I Hate Monks: In which I explain... why I hate monks. Kindof one of those "does exactly what it says on the tin" jobs.

Why I Probably Won't Be Writing For Babylon 5: In which I explain why I just never managed to get into Babylon 5.

Confessions Of A Session Amnesiac: In which I confess to my difficulties remembering what actually happened in the previous session.

Taking Santa Down: A Christmas-themed discussion of how to mug Father Christmas.

I Think My GM Hates Me: In which I discuss the ways in which my GM, John, has persecuted my Call of Cthulhu character.

You Want To Play A What?: In which I talk about the way in which I always seem to want to end up playing something weird.

Planning - How Not To Do It: An article from me about the importance of planning, using - as an example - an incident that occurred in my Sunday group's attempt at playing the Call of Cthulhu "Horror on the Orient Express" campaign.

Dealing With Dumbo: In which I discuss ways to have fun with someone who's dumped a low attribute score in their intelligence thinking that aside from skill points they can totally ignore their Int score.

Alas Poor Edas, We Knew Him: In which I relate the outcome of mixing a small enclosed tower, a psychotic magic item, and an inappropriate out-of-character joke.

Are You Sure It Happened Like That?: Where I discuss the validity or otherwise of historical documents, using the various incarnations of Star Trek (Original, Next Generation / DS9 / Voyager, and Enterprise) as an example.

Say What?: Several language-related thoughts.

The Man Who Couldn't Stop Dying, Part I: Part one of a three part article in which I list some of the many ways in which "Bill", a former gaming friend of mine, managed to have his characters die.

The Man Who Couldn't Stop Dying, Part II: Part two of the article.

The Man Who Couldn't Stop Dying, Part III: Part three of the article.

Quintessential Cheat "Preview": Article I wrote with Mike and Mark from the Critical Miss team describing how the reincarnation spell can be abused to create a ridiculously powerful character.

They're Not Like Us, Adventurers: A few thoughts on how our adventurer characters differ from real people like us, illustrated by a couple of anecodotes about a couple of real-world adventurer types that I've known.

Joe's Adventure Barn Ruined My Roleplaying: A description of how my Thursday Group's over-munchkinned D&D campaign ruined me for more artistic roleplaying.

The Trials & Tribulations of Retro Roleplaying Part I: The first part of an article describing my attempt to run a retro Twilight 2000 campaign for my Sunday group, and our attempts to master an obsolete rules system.

The Trials & Tribulations of Retro Roleplaying Part II: The second part of the article started in the previous issue, this time covering what happened when my players arrived in the Free City of Krakow.

Lateral Wizardry Part I: New (and perverse) uses for typical and mundane spells.

Lateral Wizardry Part II: The second part of the previous month's article.

Schroedinter's Squirrel (The First Half Of A Very Strange Session): The first part of an article describing some very strange goings on in my Sunday Group's D&D campaign.