So… after playing the Shab all-Hiri Roach tonight (which was fun and a really good time for all) and discussing
The Princes(ses)’ Kingdom!
Last night, I got to run The Princes’ Kingdom for Katherine. I write about it over on the Forge in
Not this, but that.
Randy and I were talking last night, and I mentioned Capes — parenthetically commenting that it and games like it
Super in a non-supers way
It occured to me a few days ago that I have very very few character City of Heroes or City
Capes cogitating
So I’ve been (slowly) reading and trying to parse Capes, from Muse of Fire Games. It’s slow going. … and
Type-cast
Over here, one of the Jason’s poses the question “What is your ‘Thing’.” What he means is… well, he gives
RW Emerson, on MMORPGs
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Aging Gamer
Story Games for Everybody – Designing for the 25-35 Demographic 3) I have disposable income, better than I had at
Random CoX Character Updates
Haven’t done one of these in awhile, and they will, I don’t doubt, tail off as time goes on. Updates
One frog, squished into two pages
For no particular reason, I decided to see if I could (via harsh editing and severe formatting) squish the Frogger
This is insanely cool…
Reversed Engineer The challenge- Design a character sheet. NOT A GAME. Just a character sheet. You have 2 weeks to
SS TF 4, part 2
When shall we wrap up the Shadow Shard TF #4? Saturday or Sunday evening? Chime in below, and ring the
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
Galactic Playtest, Session One
Played the first ‘real’ session of the Galactic playtest on Saturday. Here’s what happened. Forgive, please, the extra-super details on
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
Paranoia: “No… it’s ‘suck my nuts.'”
Okay, so on Thursday night last week I hooked up with some folks in NYC to play Paranoia — the
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.
Linking to it because I just noticed it and thought others might have missed it, also.
Monday Munchie Mailing List
Weekend in summary (more later)
There was actually a fair amount of game-type things going on this weekend. I will write a bit more about
Shadow Shard TF #4, Part Two!
I posted something on the Alliance boards about finding a time to finish this up. To quote: Got most of
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
Shadow Shard TF #4
What? Shadow Shard Task Force 4 Where? Shadow Shaaaard When? This weekend, prolly eveninks Why? We wants it, precious How?
“Release the Atomics!”
Some folks in Toronto are using Donjon to run some Space Opera, and recording the results on RandomWIki. The game
Weekend in Review
Hmm… didn’t do a whole heckuva lot this weekend, gaming-wise, due to Kaylee-busy-ness and yard work. Friday: had a really