Utopia game in progress. Sgt Fender’s attack dog Baton posing.
We’ve been playing a science fiction miniatures campaign with heavy roleplaying game elements for half a dozen games now. I’ve always liked the idea of having a handful of characters to run at the same time and this game is the first instance where I’ve got to really [...]
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Troupe play
Utopia game in progress. Sgt Fender’s attack dog Baton posing.
We’ve been playing a science fiction miniatures campaign with heavy roleplaying game elements for half a dozen games now. I’ve always liked the idea of having a handful of characters to run at the same time and this game is the first instance where I’ve got to really [...]
Dungeon World
Dungeon World cover. It looks like what I felt like as a kid playing D&D!
Dungeon World is a modern repackaging of the way you remember D&D/AD&D being, back in the day. If you never played those games, it’s supposed to deliver a straight-up, no-nonsense dungeon crawl.
It does this with rare wit.
Initially reading the game, there i [...]
The power of mechanics
The insect store
When discussing roleplaying games with gamers you don’t know all that well, you often run into a cliche. You get the people who say they don’t like the games, they like the storytelling. A common variation is “in my group we practically don’t roll the dice at all”. It’s like rules are filth [...]
Actual play: Flying Lead
Space marines kicking ass, taking names.
A friend of mine started running a hybrid roleplaying and miniatures campaign based on a freeform mashup of Starship Troopers, Aliens and whatever else “space marine” and scifi cliches you care to mention. It’s doing something I’ve thought about for years yet never acted on: adding some characte [...]
Mechwarrior Online (PC)
Mechwarrior Online. There is no third person view.
For years I’ve had Saitek Cyborg 3D USB Gold sitting right above me on the shelf, next to the desktop computer. It’s pretty hardcore. It comes with a hex key. It makes me feel somewhat superior to today’s kids. Who has joysticks these days?
Not that I’ve used it in yea [...]
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 [...]
Power2ool: Better than paper
Dyson Airblade: better than paper, scary as hell. Why'd they have to call a thing you insert your hands into a "blade" of any sort is beyond me
I started planning the D&D game I ran over the last weekend some years ago in a Moleskine notebook while on a cruise boat to Sweden. Since then I’ve iterated on the plan and wr [...]
D&D Essentials: Pre-game thought...
I do like the 4E art
I’ve read through the new Red Box (“Starter Set”), Heroes Of The Fallen Lands and the Rules Compendium, getting ready to run my first fourth edition D&D game. I’m only using these three products so far and want to see if I can actually run a game properly. I can, but it’s a can with a but [...]
D&D Essentials
I’ve been playing in a delightfully bonkers Dungeons & Dragons 4E campaign for a while now and really had a super good time with it. So much so, in fact, that I’ve been craving to run some D&D myself. The problem is that the game is very intimidating. Whenever we’re leveling up our characters, we need (I believe) fiv [...]
Cliched
I played a Buffy The Vampire Slayer RPG one-shot. It sounded like fun, everyone in the group was a fan, but when we began I was wondering. Won’t this be a bit awkward, aping the show? Or just lame, aping the show badly? At least shallow, not having our own ideas?
An empathic “no” is the outcome. We replaced the series cast [...]
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