Be gentle it’s my 1st time-or what to watch out for during the first game of Dogs in the Vineyard
Category: Links & Resources
The Typhoid Bay Buccaneers will sail again! :)
Via Story Games: I really loved Blood Bowl. I loved the idea. I loved all the little asides in the
Variant Roach
Story Games for Everybody – Conflict of Interest Hack for Shab Al-Hiri Roach. Is it really a rules hack when
Game Review Podcast
Paul Tevis, of Have Games, Will Travel, reviews 1001 Nights and Mortal Coil. Good, informative stuff.
Fix-ed
Comments should remember who you are now. Subscriptions to individual comments MIGHT be working — it’s sort of hard for
Three shall be the number…
Well of Urd: Technique: Jared’s Rule of Three If you have the opportunity to describe something, give it one to
Blog tweaking
Yeah, I’m fiddling with the design. I don’t intend to stay with what’s up here right now, but I wante
Adding Color
Well of Urd: Technique: The Importance of the Words Previously, Meanwhile and Later I’m hoping that this post will become
Oh yes…
Space Rat, Nathan Russell – 24 Hour RPG – 2005 Pwned. Coming soon to a convention near me…
Capes cogitating
So I’ve been (slowly) reading and trying to parse Capes, from Muse of Fire Games. It’s slow going. … and
The Aging Gamer
Story Games for Everybody – Designing for the 25-35 Demographic 3) I have disposable income, better than I had at
This is insanely cool…
Reversed Engineer The challenge- Design a character sheet. NOT A GAME. Just a character sheet. You have 2 weeks to
A glass of wine…
Based on this: [Bacchanal] GenCon demos and more, I ordered this: Bacchanal, a roleplaying game for adults, by Paul Czege.
Cooool.
Dogs in the Vineyard Flash Animation — if at work, have headphones.
Hey Doyce, buy this later.
Hero’s Banner — link for me to remember to go get the dang thing — and Agon.
So where’ve I been for the last 24 hours?
So here’s what happened. Over on Story-Games, someone posted this: You played it till your thumbs blistered, now write it
Resource: Vyew
Vyew.com – Free Web-Based Collaboration – Vyew.com – looks like a cool way to run games online. Link is up
I’m feeling Afraid…
Afraid: a new game from Vincent Baker, using the Dogs mechanics, for playing horror. Link is to the playtest docs,
Go. Play. Part Two.
go-play.org: A whole web page for a simple sticker. 🙂 Apparently, the Go. Play. meme took off like gangbusters a
Close your eyes and think of [insert country here]
After having just finished two Greg Rucka books, this is very interesting to me: The National Security Decision Making Game.
Signs
I like this discussion: The Secret Language of Cars — iconography for gamers. Green means go. Triangle in square means
Candamir
From Storygames for Everybody: Candamir is one of the spin-off games from Settlers of Catan. In it, you have a
“Release the Atomics!”
Some folks in Toronto are using Donjon to run some Space Opera, and recording the results on RandomWIki. The game
I cannot wait for Kaylee to be old enough to play this.
The Princes’ Kingdom You are nine years old. You just had a birthday, and your brothers got you a puppy.
Heroquest PDFs
DriveThruRPG.com has PDFs of several of the more recent Heroquest/HeroWars books, including the main HQ rulebook. Of real note is
Do. You. Want. To. Play. A. Game?
… but you cant find players? FindPlay – find gamers like you
Barkingly Odd Resource
Via Randy, Thousands of name for your dog, horse, cat, or pet from Chinaroad Lowchens of Australia. It’s rare you
Two great tastes that taste great together:
Cupcakes of Catan: Too perfect.
PSA
Phlogiston: Another Word from Our Sponsors: Do you, or some Mad Scientist you know, struggle with bouts of crippling Sanity?
Another one:
[Photoshop] Rpg motivational posters