With holiday schedules, an incoming bearcub, and all the other insanity that seems to surround the end of the year (I’m looking at you, NaNoWriMo), the automatic assumption is that no one will get any face to face gaming done in November and December. I was aiming to buck this trend this year, so I […]
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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 a really rough sketch background against which to play a Lexicon Game. Like: “The Wose War and Scandal of Eddings Barony”, “The Atomic Apotheosis”, or “The Parliamentary Assassinations of 2128″. Get a group of people […]
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 worked out how to to run the thing.] Legends tell of a vast library buried in the shifting sands of al’Wadi al’Aqbar — the Great Desert — where any scroll may be found, where all […]
Burning Wheel (finally)
I got a copy of The Burning Wheel… hmm. My first mention of it on the blog was early 2004, and I know it was the first edition of the rules, so that probably means sometime in 2003. I read some of it. It intimidated the hell out of me (and turned me off — […]
Wasting time playing DnD
No, I’m not saying that playing DnD is a waste of my time, settle down. Breathe. I ran into a pretty interesting thing I wanted to talk briefly about, though. This week, I have a lot of gaming going on, which is kind of exciting; after months of pretty much nothing in the way of […]
My thoughts on the Mouse Guard RPG
I’m very excited about the first play session of our new Primetime Adventures game this Wednesday, and while I’m putting a lot of mental effort into it, another game is on my radar, and I really had to share. There are a few games that I think of as the touchstones in independently published roleplaying […]