The concept of this little excercise from Population: One is this: take a concept from a common or popular show,
Author: doycet
Jepteth a’Ghul: this is not your daddy’s cleric
Jackie’s running an Egyptian-style mini-campaign called Necropolis. Since the campaign itself is fairly high-power to begin with, we had a
Verboten
Roll the Bones: Role Call 27: Verboten! If you were somehow forbidden from playing with your favorite system, genre or
Assimilating the Straights
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 59: Games for Non-Gamers Name three games you might use to get someone who has never
If I only have five of me.
Roll the Bones: Role Call: DIY: Can you summarize two campaign concepts you’d create for player with identical tastes to
Yay
A Nobilis page I hadn’t found before.
Update review
The clearest review of 3.5 that I’ve seen is here: This release is like Microsoft charging for software updates. If
Positive over the Negative
Creative Guy asks “is it time to hang it up?” (Referring to what is, apparently in his neck of the
Magical Box of Limited Expectation
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 57: System, Setting, Style, and Play Do you find that you play differently when you play
Missed it
In my Palm, July 6th, 2003: 1st TiHE Game Session (not counting bidding war – 1997) Six years ago… wow.
This just in:
August sucks for scheduling games.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Randy and I were having a conversation last night about character ideas and starting power levels. I’m one of those
“Sacajaweavich, you’re on overwatch!”
Some nostalgic chatting via email about playing SpaceHulk back in college led me to find this: QSpaceHulk : the total
Having my druthers
Roll the Bones: Role Call 25: The ideal group: “What qualities would your ideal group possess?”
Psychoanalysis and the Gamer
So my biggest problem with the games I’m running right now are: 1. Most are too big (have too many
Good on the spot NPC chargen
Via SfAD, the UPC Bar Code Character Generation.
Pulp Goodness
Two-Fisted Tales from Spectre Press, available as a PDF or book.
Diceless con game
Something I’ve mentioned before: someone who took Nobilis and the League of Extradinary Gentlemen comic and came up with Convention
Wish
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 56: Friends and Associates Do your characters have friends and associates who play a regular role
Building castles out of my mental blocks
I almost don’t want to teach Justin how to play Dice Castles, since he’d probably do it during our ‘real’
Grumble
Jackie got an email notice today that her 3.5 PHB is shipping. Me? Nothing. Why? Because I preordered my stuff
Useful bits
For anywhere from $2.50 to $6, The Language of Flowers is a steal and terribly terribly useful for a Nobilis
Sweet
hypocorisma: a weblog on names :: in other words, pure RPG gold. (Via Perverse Access Memory)
Oh my
Mongoose Publishing: Babylon 5 RPG, due to hit local shops any day now. I’m only surprised it took this long
Poof, you’re a bird
Prompted by watching the Prophecy, Dracula, and seeing similar stunts in the LoEG trailers, I present this bit of fluff
Groovy
Dave’s Mythical Creatures
Roll the Bones: Role Call 24 Have you ever felt like it was time to take a break, short or
Woulda coulda’s.
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 51: New Genres What are three genres that you?ve had limited exposure to as a gamer
Schticks and Schtones
Perverse Access Memory: WISH 53: Schtick What are three examples of physical or verbal schtick that you?ve used to develop
Favorites
Role Call 23 What’s your favorite character you’ve made up for a game that you never got to play? Hmm.