Learning from my nephew

2014-04-17

My nephew, Andrew, and I have a lot of fun together. I’ve been looking forward to introducing him to tabletop role playing more or less since the day he was born. Earlier this year I had an opportunity to give him a copy of Fate Accelerated Edition and a set of Fudge dice. We talked about character creation and a little about how a game would be played and the statistics of dice rolling.…

3 years

2014-04-17

A couple of years back I started running a 3.5e D&D game. I wasn’t then, and still am not, a big fan of 3rd edition in any form. I’ve been running and playing some form of 3rd edition D&D for the better part of a decade-and-a-half and my problems with the system have only turned into resentments over time. And yet, here we are, 3 years later and I am still running that same game.…

Into the Shadows

2014-04-13

I am very happy to say that the bi-weekly Saturday game that I am a part of recently switched from Warhammer Fantasy 2e to Shadowrun 5e. I was having a good time with our WFG but I have been trying to get into a Shadowrun games for the better part of a decade. When our GM made the very casual comment that he recently picked up the SR5 book and “would totally be up for running a game sometime”.…

How do I ghost?

2014-04-13

rpgames.org I’ve had the rpgames.org domain for a long time, and I’ve had tons of plans for it from time to time. It’s hosted forums and other web software, but never for very long and never with much success. Recently though I’ve been really itching to get some projects running. So I fired up a VPS and I’m going to start on a project or two. Shadowrun I am going to be starting a project for a Shadowrun 5 character generator using node.…