So the HQ: Firefly game that we’d slotted to run on Friday didn’t come off. I think I need to
Author: doycet
Eating Stake
I’m going to rave a bit about game systems where you set Stakes for a conflict and how that can
I like…
Since I’ve got a one-shot game to GM tonight (the first I’ve GM’d with strangers in awhile), and I’m going
Barkingly Odd Resource
Via Randy, Thousands of name for your dog, horse, cat, or pet from Chinaroad Lowchens of Australia. It’s rare you
Previews
Game stuff, both in the recent past and upcoming: CoX stuff — not a lot. Got Dolmen to 20. Ran
Two great tastes that taste great together:
Cupcakes of Catan: Too perfect.
It’s all about the influence…
I know some folks are off the grid for the long holiday, so for Monday Munchies, I thought it might
Just FYI
Changed this site’s name. Just like this one better.
PSA
Phlogiston: Another Word from Our Sponsors: Do you, or some Mad Scientist you know, struggle with bouts of crippling Sanity?
Book, Game, Movie
There are three stacks of things on or near my desk at home. Each stack has a book, a movie,
Commence the whuppage
Okay, they fixed ArchVillains and Giant Monsters on CoX. Who wants to do the last Shadow Shard TF, and when?
CoH Character updates
Updates to my City Of Characters. A few brief highlights: Pummelcite Pushed through last week and got him to 32,
Another one:
[Photoshop] Rpg motivational posters
Pictures worth a thousand words
Take a movie poster, make it an RPG poster. Result: The Funny. New Photoshop Challenge: RPGs go to the movies
Once again: Failure = Fun?
Failure is Always An Option: Character Defeat is Player Victory Too The biggest benefit of failure being entertaining for players,
Ask the Blind Man
One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight, Back to back they
Happy!
Story Games Community This forum was basically created to be a midway point between RPGNet and The Forge. I love
Relationship Mapping Tool
Diagram Designer — a sort of Visio-lite program that seems ideal for charting out relationship maps for highly-social games. A
“Kronos Sighted!”
Couldn’t agree with this poster more: I’d like to take a moment to promote the current state of giant monsters.
Lifecycle
Multiplayer game designer Raph Koster offers some observations on the Lifecycles of a Gamer: In many ways, we are all
Not Impossible. Not completely.
Someone beat the Lord Recluse Strike Force. Yeah, the one with Four level 50 heroes all standing together. Yeah, the
“Impossible” ArchVillains
So I ran into one of those ‘impossible’ AVs last night — the ones that are supposed to be made
Awesome
The Cheap and Cheesy Adventure Generator
Really do like that game…
Risusiverse, the Risus Wiki. Awesome.
Random Wiki thing
Changed around the layout on the page for my City Of Characters, to two purposes: 1. Lets my just update
And somehow I played with Kaylee alot…
As noted here, played Kethos and Pummelcite enough over the weekend to get Keth up two levels to 29 and
The only CoH-related thing that happened last weekend:
Coming out of my cage And I’ve been doin’ just fine Gotta gotta be down Because I want it all
AV’s, Rudalak, Munchies, and YOU
Current chatter about how difficult AVs are to beat in i7 is making me a bit nervous about the end
“Awesome, I failed.”
Random Heroquest thought, prepping for the Firefly game tonight: Failure means conflict.
For tonight:
Spoileriffic: Shadow Shard Task Force Two Checklist