Category: Musing

Hitherby Dragons: Bang There are twelve avatars, and the thirteenth which is Death. It is normal for the royal family

Added a CoH category to the Blog entry posts so as to break it out from the more generic ‘supers’

Non-Gloranthan Magic

Heroquest: Can you do EVERYTHING with an Extended Contest?

captious: (adj) disposed to find fault or raise objections. That is all.

Related to the “Who killed Freedom Girl Stateswoman” story: The Liberty Song: Battle for Axis Earth — a big-as-hell, all

Certain things that always seem to happen with me and multi-player online games: 1. I make a wise-cracking, relatively-fragile, power-throwing

Over here, here, Shawn wrote: How do you prep and run so many different games? I’m blown away by planning

Had to cancel the HQ game tonight due to schedule conflicts. Which, I gotta say, bums me out more than

I have, on two seperate occassions this week, been distracted from playing City of Heroes to the point where I

You know what’s cool? What’s cool is when you get a new game in the mail, especially when it’s something

One of the things I’m looking forward to in the HQ game with the d20 group is fights and conflicts.

Lunchtime Poll #3: Imperfect Attendance How do you cope with the absence of a player, either in a single session

“I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto,

Another thought from the same thread on the Forge, this one having to do with the idea that characters in

I’ve got an opportunity coming up to demo Heroquest for the d20 playgroup that’s been running since… oh… pretty much

[Wow. Tough to figure out what blog to post this on. I think it goes here by virtue of the

Issaries has already comissioned a “generic” rpg game using the core HeroQuest rules and to be published with several sample

Based on the back-cover copy for DitV and incorporating a suggested alternative setting from the GM’s section: Dogs in the

Well, I went back to a slightly tweaked version of the original blog page; not due to negative feedback as

So here’s an interesting thing: One of the main bits of preparation that you’re supposed to do (as the GM)

While digression and kibbitzing has been a perennial complaint/joke/bugaboo around the gaming table, there was a point about two years