Here’s a playlist of our first four (five) sessions of Masks, including Session 0 chargen, plus several plotagon video diaries players have done up. A few notes: Session 0 video was screwed up, so I turned that into an audio track with illustrative imagery. Session 1 audio is jacked up – you can hear the […]
Category Archives: Online Table Top
PC Video Journal
The player for Jason Quill (nanobot-infused Doomed in our campaign, loosely based on Johnny Quest) posted a video diary, following our first big fight. (And tip of the hat to our power-armor-designing Bull, who also posted a journal in our Roll20 forum, full of angst and self-recrimination.) I love living in the future. And damned […]
Masks Campaign Material – Super-YouTubers
We've had two play sessions of our Masks campaign so far. The game opened with an excruciating interview between the team and morning show host Tasha Starr (of The Morning Starr), in which she asks them about the team, themselves, and the fight against Hannibal Lectric that brought them all together. Things got complicated when […]
Masks, Session 1, Not Exactly Actual Play
For our first real session of Masks, I decided to start off the game[^1] with a super-awkward morning-news-show-style interview with most of the team and the interviewer, Tasha Starr. It was deliciously horrible. When Iconoclast finally blasted in the streetside window and shouted "this interview is over!" the Bull's immediate reaction – over a live […]
Masks, Session 0
The video recording for this session went wonky, so here's the audio for our Masks session 0. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5y9JJSSCg1pZnNWNDZGS2NQNUk/view?usp=sharing I'm SUPER excited to see these kids in action. – Link, the power-armored super-genius with a very complicated family life (Bull)– Concord, the way-too-young host of the Powers of Valor (Nova playbook)– Jason Quill, one-time child science […]
Masks AP Resource
The whelmed podcast (located at the nigh-perfect url http://crashingthemode.com/) is basically “Buffering the Vampire Slayer,” but for Young Justice. I’ve just started in on the beginning of the show, and it’s great; if you like podcasts where pop culture love and gaming overlap and/or intersect, I recommend it. But here’s an additional BONUS: the podcast […]
The Art(ist) of the Game
I’m very lucky to have +Michael Williams in my regular Tuesday night (hangouts-based) gaming group. (we’re currently playing Dungeon World and Lady Blackbird, after wrapping up a 30-session pbta-hacked Star Wars campaign.) I’m lucky to have him because he’s a great player. I didn’t even KNOW he could draw until he started turning out these […]
Terribly Dated Game Commentary
After having the core D&D fifth edition books on my shelf for well over a year almost three years, I finally had good cause to read them. (I'm a bit past the point where I can find the time to read RPGs just for the heck of it.) I'm both surprised and delighted to discover […]
Ready for Prime Time
Last night, we started a new Dungeon World game with the regular Tuesday night group. As I shared yesterday, I've been pretty excited about the game, as have the players, and it went about as well as I'd hoped. But that's not what I'm posting about. Normally, +Kaylee Testerman isn't around on Tuesday nights, but […]
Dungeon World Character Creation Thread
We’re starting up a mini-campaign of Dungeon World, with most of the conversation taking place in a single private Google+ conversation thread. But it was too good, so I’m saving most of it here for posterity. Sorry the formatting is so terrible. Blame G+. Okay, I think the plan I’m going to go with is […]
Star Wars: Rebel Ops Update
I don't make a habit of posting links to the AP videos for our ongoing online Star Wars game, mostly because they're just a LOT of them (21 sessions recorded, with two additional missing sessions where we had technical difficulties). 23 sessions in about 46 weeks isn't too bad, as far as I'm concerned. I'm […]
Thinking about Spaceships and Star Wars because… well, OBVIOUSLY
First, before getting into the “thinking” part, I’ll just embed this silly song with clips from a bunch of spaceship shows. Pop on some headphones and enjoy yourself. Now then… Yesterday, the Evil Hat guys released a new “World of Adventure”; I’m a patron of the project, and thus far I have not in any […]
Mulling Over *Mountain Witch* mashups
For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on stuff related to the Mountain Witch, specifically: Prepping for a traditional “ronin samurai” play-through of the game, hopefully on Hangouts, hopefully soonish. Pondering various settings hacks for the game, including Dwarves/Dragon, Adventurers/Castle Ravenloft, Spark Prisoners/Escaping Castle Heterodyne, and so forth. The basic criteria with these settings/setups […]
Wildstar Tabletop Gaming, by way of FAE/Jadepunk
“You should do a Wildstar game,” opined my daughter. “Sorry?” Her comment confused me, both because Wildstar is an MMO and because I was distracted at the moment due to the fact that we were both playing Wildstar at that moment. “Like you did with DC Universe,” she explained. “A Fate version of Wildstar. That […]
Hangouts/Roll20 Gaming: Past and Future
As most of you know, I finished up a Fate game about a month ago that ran via Google Hangouts and the Roll20 plugin (session videos here). I’d originally thought it would run around 6 sessions (my rough estimate for a face to face tabletop environment with ~3.5 hour sessions), and it ended up at […]
Fate, The Demolished Ones, Sessions 5 and 6
Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t be blogging about this game at all, right now: the last anyone would have heard about it would have been Session 3. That doesn’t mean the game is going poorly! Far, far from it. However, there’s a ton of other stuff going on at the moment (work stuff, writing stuff, […]
Fate, The Demolished Ones, Session 4
After a week off for illness (mine) we’re jumping back into the Demolished Ones tonight, with session five. While checking up on my notes, I realized I’d never posted an actual play for this session and, with thirty minutes to play time, it’s a bit too late. Thankfully, there is at least a complete audio […]
Fate: The Demolished Ones, Session Three
“But first, I believe formal introductions are in order.” The statement hangs in the air for more than a few moments, bringing silence to the booth at the late-night public house. Finally, [Dave] speaks up: “Victor Edwards.” I held up a Fate point. “I will give this to you if you now finish the sentence: […]
Fate: The Demolished Ones, Session Two
“Anyone know where Beacon Street is?” He looks around at the quiet, fog-shrouded night streets. “Or where we are?” That’s where we ended session one of The Demolished Ones and, surprise surprise, where we picked up with session two. I opened this up by informing the players that once [Dave] asked the question, the characters […]
Fate: Kugen Wasabi
This has been sitting in my drafts folder for something like six months, so let’s put it out there, just for fun. I made this guy up for a “feudal, so-high-tech-it’s-low-tech Japan” campaign that ran for (I think) just the character creation session. An obvious riff on the Blade of the Immortal comics (which I’ve […]