I drafted my evemail, aiming for a mix of “we’re all just trying to get along” and “we have no
Category: Actual Play
Life in a Wormhole: What do you mean, “Neighbors?”
There was a moment of stunned disbelief following CB’s question. I hit d-scan several times on several characters and got
Life in a Wormhole: Time to Get Lost
Gor has advocated for starting the trip further into the evening, so as to avoid the prime hours of activity
Life in a Wormhole: The Adventure Begins… with shopping.
A flurry of communications followed my initial email about the empty wormhole. Questions. Queries. Calculations. A whoooole lot of calculations.
“My name is John Crichton…”
I haven’t been compelled to write about the sorts of things going on with my time in-game with EVE up
Actual Play of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple — “Swallowed Whole”
Despite crazy schedules and a newborn to deal with, Chris and Tim and I managed to get together last night
Burning Wheel, in Review
With holiday schedules, an incoming bearcub, and all the other insanity that seems to surround the end of the year
A long time coming.
Back in 2006, I wrote this short post: You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to make up
The Library of Worlds, Part One
[Full disclosure: about 80% of this was designed by Alexander Newman for 10.10.10. He was a great helped while I
Burning Wheel (finally)
I got a copy of The Burning Wheel… hmm. My first mention of it on the blog was early 2004,
A funny thing happened on the way to the Ruins
So I’m on my little loremaster last night, just poking at a few quests, and find myself in the Chetwood,
Wrapping up Diaspora, Shakespeare-Style
So quite a little while ago, we started out a Diaspora game. Our schedules have been a little crazy —
Diaspora Hacks, by way of Dresden Files
After a series of scheduling problems, we finally got back to the Diaspora game last night for the first time
In a Wicked Amber
I don’t listen very well, even to myself. Short version of that post — following a session of In a
Diaspora, Session 3: Heat up the Iridium, it’s Shootin’ Time
It had been my intention to introduce everyone to the Ship, Personal, and Social combat mini-games in Diaspora during the
Diaspora, Session 2: Fight!
When we last left our space-faring heroes, they were delivering a cargo bay full of “mining equipment” to a (one
Mass Effect 2 (spoileriffic)
Okay, after I posted about ME1, Dave linked to this super-spoilleriffic post that really ripped into some of the story
Diaspora, Session 1: Teacup on The Tempest
I tell you, I don’t know why I bother prepping. Last night was the only Wednesday in February where I
In which I give in and talk about Mass Effect
Yeah yeah, I know: the game’s been out for two or three years — it’s old news. Well, not to
Diaspora: Cluster and Character generation (ridiculously TL;DR)
Exactly one year after our first gathering, the Wednesday night group got together for our first session of the new
2009: The Year In Gaming
Well, the year in *my* gaming, anyway. Last year, during the holidays, Tim (I’m pretty sure it was Tim) suggested
Danger Patrol: Zombie Kong and Plan 8 from Planet X
Two of the players couldn’t make it to our PTA game last night, and since they were our spotlight character
Mouse Guard: The River at Elmoss, and making players cry
Got a chance to go back and play some Mouse Guard this weekend with Dave and Margie and Kate and
Min-Maxing Fun
Entirely unrelated to this post here -> over on storygames, they’re kind of talking about the same sort of thing
Meta-gaming, Actor-Stance, Author-stance, and Narration
Twitter. The final frontier new hotness. These are the transcripts of gaming nerds, trying to discuss involved game sessions using
“This ends in Mud.”
((The title of this session is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the finest, most awesome line in the new Mouse Guard
[3:16] Actual Play: Reptiloid Chameleon Tricksters in the Goya Asteroid Belt — no way were those actual troopers.
So the player of this episode’s spotlight character didn’t show up for PTA last night (Khaaaaan!), I suddenly needed to
[PTA] Ironwall, Episode 1: The Ambassador
Wow, it’s been awhile since this episode aired, but as Episode 2 is playing tonight, I thought I’d better get
LotRO – a set on Flickr
Kate and I have taken all the screenshots from the last two years of playing LotRO and put them up
Optimizing my free time
I don’t have anything against DnD 4e. In my opinion, it’s a big step up – a real evolution –