Category: Links & Resources

Or rather, superscience: how to run Venture Brothers style adventures using InSpectres.

The Ballad of Black Mesa makes me want to go buy Half-life 2.

NearbyGamers — a gamer locator, since FindPlay doesn’t exactly… umm… work. Right now.

Minion Cards! Minions, being the salt and bone of Spirit of the century, need heavy use and lots and lots

((With thanks to Andy Kitkowski for the post title.)) How… interesting. Wizards of the Coast is offering a limited supply

Marvel’s Civil War storyline (which directly addresses things like 9/11 and the Patriot Act) makes a pretty bold move. (Huge

AFRAID: Dogs in the Vineyard + horror + a lot more = AWESOME!

Related to that last post: steampunk magazine – putting the punk back into steampunk Before the age of homogenization and

Eric’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: steampunk star wars Awesome. Especially Vader.

Have Games Will Travel: Focuses specifically on the responsibilities of players to engage in the game and shout out when

Indie Press Revolution: CRN Games, maker of Shadow of Yesterday

The Durham 3 talk about Secrets in Gaming — very specifically, in the first couple minutes they talk about secrets

The Mountain Witch vs. BSG: Battlestar Fujiyama

Playing, designing, and respecting other players with kick-butt characters, Using Questions to help your game, and Good Sentences There’s some

Beat This Caption (Stormtroopers edition) “Luckily for these guys, being in their thirties and still living in their parent’s basement

Son of Kryos Podcast #27: Given everyone screen time (an ongoing concern of mine). Playing RPGs online, such as over

Have you never GM’d? Have you GM’d only a little? Have you just be kinda curious about GMing and, along

My RPG flaws… people talking about their personal/gaming flaws in RPG-expressed terms. Funny, and very very recognizable.

Matt sez: We playtested Galactic again and it was awesome! Holy cripes it sounds like he really got the game

Story Games for Everybody – Bang!: A Roleplaying “Gateway” Game: Great discussion, full of observations I agree with. 🙂 Looking

Gametable: shared whiteboard/mapping/tactical space, plus die-rolling. Perfect tool to run alongside Skype, when your players are geographically dispersed.

BibliOdyssey: Illustrations from old books. That’s all it is, and it is mighty.

Monstrous.com – a big site about monsters

Front Cover for Galactic

Demo of Mortal Coil, in mp3 format, from GenCon; illustrates the game really well.

No-prep, quick-start play using the 400+ pulp extravaganza, Spirit of the Century? Yes.

Steampunk – via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I envy Paul Tevis’ upcoming gaming schedule. (Have Games, Will Travel #79)

How do you take an already great game and awesomeate it? Jungle Speed: Flower Power — The game comes in