City of Heroes Official Forums: Winter Event returns. A cold front on the horizon brings back winter to the streets
Cue the Stormtrooper March
Beat This Caption (Stormtroopers edition) “Luckily for these guys, being in their thirties and still living in their parent’s basement
*crickets*
With the holidays just winding down, there hasn’t been much gaming going on around the Casa, but I’ll mention what
Silence!
Geek Omerta: talk about gaming like it’s a normal pass time like golfing or quilting? Perish the thought! Gush effusively
Tis a day of podcastiness
Son of Kryos Podcast #27: Given everyone screen time (an ongoing concern of mine). Playing RPGs online, such as over
Play the GM
Have you never GM’d? Have you GM’d only a little? Have you just be kinda curious about GMing and, along
“Dilettante” -15pt disad
My RPG flaws… people talking about their personal/gaming flaws in RPG-expressed terms. Funny, and very very recognizable.
World Design Questions
Setting Design Jumpstart, from Tony L-B, who take Aria: Worlds and does it in a much more useable format. I’m
Grrrr
Gauntlet (punch-tuant) powers are still not working for Tanks and Brutes. I take up Dave’s bandwidth ranting about it.
Oh, the weather online is frightful…
City of Heroes Winter Event: Looks fun. 🙂 Noelle should love the Ski Chalet. 🙂 Anyone know what new zone
Galactic Revision Update
Matt sez: We playtested Galactic again and it was awesome! Holy cripes it sounds like he really got the game
Why I love that community…
Story Games for Everybody – Secret Santa! So cool.
Bang!
Story Games for Everybody – Bang!: A Roleplaying “Gateway” Game: Great discussion, full of observations I agree with. 🙂 Looking
Online Gaming Tool
Gametable: shared whiteboard/mapping/tactical space, plus die-rolling. Perfect tool to run alongside Skype, when your players are geographically dispersed.
Picture Perfect
BibliOdyssey: Illustrations from old books. That’s all it is, and it is mighty.
Screenies!
I haven’t posted any screenies from CoH in awhile, so before I get into a bunch of costume changes with
Snow! It was the Snow! I swear!
This has nothing to do with why I’m working from home today. Seriously. It’s because of the snow. I didn’t
AP: tMV in PbP (Actual Play: the Mountain Witch in Play-by-Post)
It’s not entirely true that I didn’t get any gaming time in this weekend: I’ve recently started up Play-by-Forum-Post game
Uneventful weekend
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing
Something Wicked this way Downloads
Monstrous.com – a big site about monsters
So the folks who playtested it can see it…
Front Cover for Galactic
For those to whom I’ve mentioned the game.
Demo of Mortal Coil, in mp3 format, from GenCon; illustrates the game really well.
Awesome
No-prep, quick-start play using the 400+ pulp extravaganza, Spirit of the Century? Yes.
Hmm…
Steampunk – via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Green
I envy Paul Tevis’ upcoming gaming schedule. (Have Games, Will Travel #79)
Very nearly enough to make me like the French
How do you take an already great game and awesomeate it? Jungle Speed: Flower Power — The game comes in
Charted
strange maps, a fun blog with a ton of interesting bits on it, complete with — of course — maps.
Note: I am not a cat person
Before the dawn of Time, all the creatures of the world came together for a great competition. The benefit to
NYC TSoY
After nine months of dancing around the idea, I finally got a chance to run a game for the ‘geeks’
My god, it’s full of stars…
How do you take a lame 80’s cartoon and make it incredibly awesome? Here’s one way: Marko Djurdjevic’s He-Man Redesign.