… is a fascinating kind of car-crash voyeurism. Lots of folks into gaming have never really tried anything outside of
Category: Table Top
Learn about DnD 4.0 with some cool, funny guys.
Okay, so here’s what happened. Tycho and Gabriel from Penny Arcade, plus Scott Kurtz from PvP, got together with one
For the nerd on your Father’s Day list
Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition. I’m sorry, I’m just hearing too much good stuff about it. The indie roleplaying community
“I kick it (old school) for 1d6+2 damage.”
So a few weeks ago, I was poking through an old chest of junk from high school and found something
In a Wicked Age
So I’ve mentioned this game a couple times on the site, but haven’t really gotten into the game that much
Nobilis, renewed.
(Via Story Games:) Rebecca Borgstrom has released “Unlikely Flowerings”, the first part of the long-awaited Society of Flowers supplement for
Week in Review
Not a ton to say, really. Kate might disagree, but it doesn’t feel as though a lot’s been going on
“All right, you rudimentary-lathe people have gone too far.” (Galactic: introduction and Session One)
I’m really not going to be able to do the Galactic game justice with an Actual Play report. First, we’ve
“Let’s not create a WoW-widow before we even get married, hmm?”
… or, to be fair, a Gaming-widow in general. I’ve been giving my Google-calendar a workout for the last couple
Week in Review
Just a quickie. MMO: WoW Grezzk This was kind of an exciting week with the guild, as we expanded our
Galactic: characters and everything else
So, this part is going to be very sketchy. For more information on the characters, the setting, the worlds, and
So let’s talk about Galactic.
Then Isabel, seeing before all others that the Scourge would indeed be the end of Humanity, did gather up the
Galactic: good for the brain, bad for the eyes
I was going to write up a post about the character/universe generation for the Galactic game from this weekend (a
Week in Review
So here’s what’s been going on. Face to Face Ran a murder mystery for the most recent Spirit of the
[SotC/Fate] A Different Take on Phases
From one of the game’s author’s a great tweak to the phases in SotC character generation to move away from
Zombies at(e) the Homecoming Dance
Caught up by the desire to play a little wacky horror roleplaying in the middle of the week, I got
Playing to win
I actually had two points for my “serious gamer” post, but the thing was getting too long, so here’s the
Casual/Hardcore vs. the Serious Gamer
Okay. This is going to seem like it has a lot to do with MMO gaming, but at it’s heart
Gaming in review
A mix of gaming this weekend. ((Blogging bitching: it really should be possible to just hit Ctrl-B in Moveabletype to
Week in Review
Tabletop Played a little Spirit of the Century this last weekend. It wasn’t the session I’d dreamed up for the
Hmm
I think, assuming that Birdwell Island is a Chancel (which is clearly is, otherwise all the mortals would have gone
“Now a regular weekly publication!”
It’s a Spirit of the Century-palooza. First, we had a character generation shindig down at Lee and De’s for Nine
Hell did not freeze over, but it did get a little brisk down there.
So I went down to Lee and De’s yesterday and, with Randy, Meera, and Kingsley, made up characters for a
Mortal Coil
This weekend, Kate’s in town and I wanted to have a social kind of gaming thing — while both she
In other news.
Heroquest, Spring Fountain, this Friday … umm soon. Woo? 🙂
Face to face gaming? People do that?
Potentially running two face to face games this coming week while Aaron and Kate are at the Casa: Ancient China.
Very Sad
Went looking for the the Nobilis “Lexicon” projects today. They seem to have vanished.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Stan, if you get this before you’re off to Hackmaster, call me. We’re attempting an uncancellation.
Whoa
Prep for the Heroquest game has generated 105 emails in ten days, between me and five players. Upside: very damn
Weekend in gaming
Friday: Played InSpectres, in which our heros (a hooker, an ex-mormon mechanic, a fringe-fringe-FRINGE scientist, and a cold-war MI-5 operative