Over on the excellent Story Games forum, I asked folks who’ve been playing The Shadow of Yesterday about how long
“Time to look on the Brightside!”
We actually got back down from the mountains on Sunday, had lunch, had a nap, and STILL had time to
Monday in review
Briefly: Logged into play with the Hostess Heroes on Monday Munchies last night. As it turned out, only about five
CoH Easter Egg
Specifically: City of Villains – Easter Egg in Grandville. Spoilery, but only in an OOC-way.
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.
Galactic!
The guy who wrote PrimeTime Adventures (Matt Wilson) is working on a new game called Galactic! The game takes place…
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
The Shadow of Yesterday: Freebooters One-Shot (Second Run), Post-mortem
So the HQ: Firefly game that we’d slotted to run on Friday didn’t come off. I think I need to
Eating Stake
I’m going to rave a bit about game systems where you set Stakes for a conflict and how that can
I like…
Since I’ve got a one-shot game to GM tonight (the first I’ve GM’d with strangers in awhile), and I’m going
Barkingly Odd Resource
Via Randy, Thousands of name for your dog, horse, cat, or pet from Chinaroad Lowchens of Australia. It’s rare you
Previews
Game stuff, both in the recent past and upcoming: CoX stuff — not a lot. Got Dolmen to 20. Ran
Two great tastes that taste great together:
Cupcakes of Catan: Too perfect.
It’s all about the influence…
I know some folks are off the grid for the long holiday, so for Monday Munchies, I thought it might
Just FYI
Changed this site’s name. Just like this one better.
PSA
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Book, Game, Movie
There are three stacks of things on or near my desk at home. Each stack has a book, a movie,
Commence the whuppage
Okay, they fixed ArchVillains and Giant Monsters on CoX. Who wants to do the last Shadow Shard TF, and when?
CoH Character updates
Updates to my City Of Characters. A few brief highlights: Pummelcite Pushed through last week and got him to 32,
Another one:
[Photoshop] Rpg motivational posters
Pictures worth a thousand words
Take a movie poster, make it an RPG poster. Result: The Funny. New Photoshop Challenge: RPGs go to the movies
Once again: Failure = Fun?
Failure is Always An Option: Character Defeat is Player Victory Too The biggest benefit of failure being entertaining for players,
Ask the Blind Man
One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight, Back to back they
Happy!
Story Games Community This forum was basically created to be a midway point between RPGNet and The Forge. I love
Relationship Mapping Tool
Diagram Designer — a sort of Visio-lite program that seems ideal for charting out relationship maps for highly-social games. A
“Kronos Sighted!”
Couldn’t agree with this poster more: I’d like to take a moment to promote the current state of giant monsters.
Lifecycle
Multiplayer game designer Raph Koster offers some observations on the Lifecycles of a Gamer: In many ways, we are all
Not Impossible. Not completely.
Someone beat the Lord Recluse Strike Force. Yeah, the one with Four level 50 heroes all standing together. Yeah, the
“Impossible” ArchVillains
So I ran into one of those ‘impossible’ AVs last night — the ones that are supposed to be made