Adorable picture of Japanese kids playing RPGs. I tried to find the artist so I could link, but couldn't
I have a background in running and playing (mostly running) tabletop roleplaying games for over twenty years. I consider myself highly skilled in gamemastering. My library of games covers pretty much everything in terms of style, mec [...]
How to run D&D 4E with minimum t...
Adorable picture of Japanese kids playing RPGs. I tried to find the artist so I could link, but couldn't
I have a background in running and playing (mostly running) tabletop roleplaying games for over twenty years. I consider myself highly skilled in gamemastering. My library of games covers pretty much everything in terms of style, mec [...]
Skyrim
Skyrim. Hot damn they've improved from Oblivion's tasteless fantasy tropes
My wife got me Ready Player One for Christmas. It’s pretty good for a kid born in the 70s, and its themes of virtual worlds and their relation to the real world gels really well with a science fiction thing I’ve been working on. Then I started playi [...]
Dungeons & Dragons Essentials af...
T-shirt design by Penny Arcade
I’ve been running a lot of D&D Essentials lately. I think it’s interesting to see how my initial expectations have fared against nine games into a campaign and a couple of off-shoots.
I’ve ended up with a lot of stuff I have no use for.
The characters are created using the online Dungeons & [...]
Kane & Lynch 2
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
I found the first Kane & Lynch an important game. It was not very good as an action title – although by no means bad, either – but it was very interesting.
Games should generally be more interesting.
What made it interesting was its sad bastards of protagonists. These guys are the same in the seque [...]
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
I had to have Dark Souls on the PlayStation 3 instead of Xbox 360 because of the free multiplayer. (I gave up on Xbox Live Gold due to over a year of not using it.) This is surprising considering that there is little direct playing together with other people going on. I’ve played for over 30 hours and had one invasion where a [...]
What’s wrong with Bioware? (Mas...
Mass Effect 2
I used to think that Bioware was the coolest studio out there. They were putting out games I absolutely loved: mainly
Driver: San Francisco
Driver: San Francisco
Before Driver: San Francisco, I thought that maybe you just can’t do engaging storytelling in a car game. Rockstar had given it a shot, and while I really enjoy Midnight Club: Los Angeles, the storytelling is really very bad and uninteresting. If Rockstar can’t do it, who can? It turns out that Reflections ca [...]
Dungeons & Dragons: Skill Challe...
D&D Rules Compendium
I’ve praised D&D fourth edition’s skill challenges before, but they warrant some more love. Initially I dismissed the system – I thought it was just about Wizards branding the concept of rolling for a skill outside of combat or something.
But they’ve taken a leaf out of new wave roleplaying [...]
Warhammer 40 000: Space Marine
Space Marine cover
Based on Relic’s history with Warhammer 40 000 I had a feeling they might really deliver with Space Marine, their first action take on the franchise. I’ve played both Dawn Of War titles a lot and liked the adaptations into videogame form quite a bit. As most Warhammer fans, what I’d really love is a direct [...]
Dungeons & Dragons: Running an e...
Black dragon
We are now five sessions into our “In Exile” (“Maanpaossa” in Finnish) campaign, in which the players portray nobles and their servants who have fled their homeland, now trapped in civil war. It is very much back to basics D&D, as per the Essentials flavor.
The game has been very successful so far and [...]
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