I get a tidy email notification every time somebody posts a comment here, which is nice because I get reminded about cool discussions after they clear my RSS reader. But, assuming there’s someone else who would find this service convenient, it’s not fair that I’m the only one who gets it!

I’ve changed the administrative address for this notebook to dispatch@xorph.com, which currently just bounces everything to me. If you’d like to get comment notifications, post your email address (formatted however you like) in the comments on this post. I’ll add you to the bounce list in a couple of days (so you don’t all get spammed with each other’s requests to join).

From a discussion on focus over at Vincent Baker’s Ongoing Roleplaying Theory Open House comes this image from an old Dragon Magazine, very kindly dug up and provided by Jeff Rients. It’s a flowchart of how a typical second-edition Top Secret spy adventure was designed to run, and it might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

The chart itself is copyright Merle Rasmussen, of course, but I think the structure and format are excellent fodder. How can we play with this? What other kinds of genre games would make good flowcharts, and what would they look like?