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Most game books have a section where it attempts to describe what an RPG is. I guess they do this in case someone who has never heard of gaming has somehow found their book. I

think this is silly because if someone is under a big enough rock to

not know what gaming is they're unlikely to ever find your book.

Well, I’m really expecting you not to know immediately what on

earth I’m going on about. I’m not even sure I know where I’m

going…

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For a while, I've been rough-drafting a Zine. It's called "Player's Handbook," and it's a guide to having adventures in the real world the same way you do in games. The organization is a play on that of the typical tabletop RPG book. I've decided to finish up the drafts and post them, a chapter at a time, on my Evoke Blog. So look for the Tag "Player's Handbook" over the next couple months.

Among the many labels I stick decoratively to my personality, I like to call myself a steampunk. You probably think that means I wear goggles on a tophat (true) and have an etched brass case for my iphone (false). Or maybe you've never heard the term, but I doubt that. In any case, I'm going to let Bruce sterling describe what I mean by steampunk because he's so much better at it than I am.



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