It had been my intention to introduce everyone to the Ship, Personal, and Social combat mini-games in Diaspora during the
Category: Table Top
Diaspora, Session 2: Fight!
When we last left our space-faring heroes, they were delivering a cargo bay full of “mining equipment” to a (one
Diaspora, Session 1: Teacup on The Tempest
I tell you, I don’t know why I bother prepping. Last night was the only Wednesday in February where I
Being Immortal in Fate (Diaspora)
Tim challenges me. First, he never lets me coast during our games: not as a GM, certainly, but neither as
Diaspora: Cluster and Character generation (ridiculously TL;DR)
Exactly one year after our first gathering, the Wednesday night group got together for our first session of the new
Farscape as gaming group
Recently Farscape became available on the ‘view on my computer’ queue via Netflix, part of a re-release that also put
2009: The Year In Gaming
Well, the year in *my* gaming, anyway. Last year, during the holidays, Tim (I’m pretty sure it was Tim) suggested
Mouse Guard: The River at Elmoss, and making players cry
Got a chance to go back and play some Mouse Guard this weekend with Dave and Margie and Kate and
Meta-gaming, Actor-Stance, Author-stance, and Narration
Twitter. The final frontier new hotness. These are the transcripts of gaming nerds, trying to discuss involved game sessions using
“This ends in Mud.”
((The title of this session is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the finest, most awesome line in the new Mouse Guard
[3:16] Actual Play: Reptiloid Chameleon Tricksters in the Goya Asteroid Belt — no way were those actual troopers.
So the player of this episode’s spotlight character didn’t show up for PTA last night (Khaaaaan!), I suddenly needed to
[PTA] Ironwall, Episode 1: The Ambassador
Wow, it’s been awhile since this episode aired, but as Episode 2 is playing tonight, I thought I’d better get
Optimizing my free time
I don’t have anything against DnD 4e. In my opinion, it’s a big step up – a real evolution –
Primetime Adventures: Ironwall, Pilot Episode, “The Hill”
((Our pitch session is here. The cast includes: Cam, mechanic and tinkerer-savant Joseph, one of the pillars of the settlement,
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
Primetime Adventures Pitch Session: Apocalypse Fairies!
So last night we got got together to work through the Pitch Session for a new Primetime Adventures game. ((For
Coming back to the old home town: Paragon City
Saturday morning, I revved up the old comp and prepared to get in a little gaming goodness. Would I get
We got our butts kicked by Shadows over Camelot, and it was excellent.
As I’ve said before, I’ve wanted to play Shadows Over Camelot for quite a long time. Two and a half
Why I wouldn’t use IAWA to run Amber (at least not with Amber players)
Wednesday night rolled around, and we were set to play In a Wicked Age. This was going to be my
Story Games for Everybody – Shadows Over Camelot
Kate picked up Shadows Over Camelot for me this week, which is a game I’ve desperately wanted every since I
Heck yes I’m preordering it.
Leonard Balsera talks about Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies. It’s The Three Musketeers meets The Princess Bride meets pre-mecha Final
Birthday presents for nerds
From a GChat with the DM in my once-a-month DnD game: 12:59 PM Dale: Congratulations: your character gets 175 xp
A review of my recent gaming, via pictures.
Interpret as you see fit. MMO: Lord of the Rings Online That would be Geiri, Tiranor, and our new friend,
Amber Diceless doesn’t make the “Bucket List”?
Related to my previous post, a spin-off discussion about why Amber Diceless doesn’t make some people’s top-12 list. I contribute
d20 update (and a bit of a rant at the end)
I feel weird using ‘d20’ to refer to a game of Dungeons and Dragons 4.0, as the game is fundamentally
Patch 4.1 out for DnD
Okay, not a patch, but people make the DnD = MMORPG comparison so much, I figured one more tired joke
Gaming Update
Haven’t done one of these in awhile, mostly because I’d been updating WoW and LotRO play stuff using Twitter. However,
To my gamer-homies that don’t live within 10 minutes of me…
I’m seriously thinking about this camera (thirty bucks, so… less than a tank of gas), plus Skype (free), for in-home
Hacking the DnD Action Point rules
So I looked over the various gaming threads that had come out of discussions of Action Points and how they
The One Where He Totally Geeked Out Like a Mid-1980s Gamer Nerd ((Hacking DnD 4 into Lord of the Rings))
I noticed early on that LotRO’s main conceit about their “Health Bar” really really works in DnD 4th with regards