I’ve just helped establish Gametime, a livejournal community to discuss game design and theory, centred in New Zealand. We’re aiming to contribute to the on-going online conversation about RPGs, and build up the Kiwi indie-publishing scene.

Our first few posts centred on Sorceror, where we talked about cheating, Bangs, and different types of setting. At the moment, we're analysing the issues involved in playing and running Burning Empires.

Currently, Gametime has three contributors:

- Luke (known as Skywalker, here on the Forge) is exploring how to integrate shared narrative tools from games like Burning Empires and With Great Power into traditional RPGs - both new and existing.

- Morgue (who posts as morgue on the Forge) is digging through his past and present gaming experiences, in order to better understand why some things worked and others didn't.

- I tend to write about what’s fascinating me right now. Currently that’s Narrativism and a 24 Hour RPG about Romero zombie movies that I wrote a few weekends ago.

We’d like to invite anyone who wants to join the conversation to drop in. Hope to see you there.