Inception!

Most of you will have found your way here from my other foray into the depths of the internet, Fog and Castles. If, however, you have reached this blog first, I highly suggest you go take a peek at the other one as well. Games, after all, are nothing more nor less than a window into the human mind - a subject which I tackle far more directly over there. That said, shit blows up a lot more here.

This is a project I've been working on in my mind for quite some time now. After all, a considerable portion of my life is dedicated to gaming and to thinking about games, and so it is only natural that I should want to write about them. And yet, the same people who are willing to listen to my ramblings on philosophy, politics, and dinosaurs, may not be terribly interested in my discourse on the best way to gib nOObs in a game of Team Fortress 2.

Not, however, that this blog will be particularly dedicated to that either. Rather, I would like to use this space to talk about the art of gaming, the strengths and weaknesses of the game as a genre, and to catalogue my travels through the world of games. Furthermore, given that I have begun to undertake a truly staggering quantity of roleplaying in the last year or so, I fully intend to post campaign logs and thoughts on various roleplaying adventures here as well.

And so, without further ado: Etarran brings you The Games of Castles. Over the next few days, expect this space to increase ridiculously in content, as my gaming habit spills over into text. You will tremble before it.