I never played Space: 1889, but when I saw this brief on 20by20room.com, I had to check it out. Basically, these are "full-cast audio adventures" record to CD and set in a world in which man went into space in the 1800 using the sort of "fantastic science" seen in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. Looks pretty cool. Read the full story.

Want to reduce the national debt? How about this for a radical concept: instead of increasing tax rates, why not decrease spending? Read the full story.

When the mainstream sees Grand Theft Auto, they see mindless violence, rampant mayhem, and destruction without purpose. When gamers look at it though, they see something different: freedom to explore. With my new Dark City campaign, I'm trying to capture that freedom in a pen-and-paper role-playing game.

Matt Snyder (of 20by20room.com fame) recently posted a RPG meme topic to his blog. In it, he poses 15 questions about people's gaming experiences. Here are my answers.