Gaming

Dungeons and Drag-on

2014-07-13

Late last year I began running games online. I don’t lack for local games, but I have friends who live in diverse areas and I wanted to have something to do with them. We chatted about what to play, I’d recently started getting into FATE and wanted to try that, but people generally wanted something a little more crunchy. I’m pretty sick of 3e so I vetoed that, and we ended up landing on Savage Worlds .…

pulped.

2014-06-09

Boom Boom Bill and the Kaisers Kat Bill and the Royal Marines have a message for the citizens of Hamburg, “Don’t mess with the Royal Marines”. Normally it’s Bill’s job to cause destruction and mayhem, but the Kaisers kat has other ideas. Now the Royal Marines are stuck between a battalion of germans, a ticking bomb, and the most destructive kat in history. Boom Boom Bill in the Jade Tiger Mysteries In a case of mistaken identity Bill finds himself teamed up with a shoot first, ask questions later, yankee who saves Bill’s life before dropping him off a cliff.…

Atomic Robo

2014-04-24

I’ve been reading Atomic Robo for a couple of years now. I lurv it. It really makes me happy, has a fabulous sense of humor, and action science is my favorite type of science. It turns out that just recently the guys over at Evil Hat have churned out the Atomic Robo roleplaying game . I am really looking forward to having some time to play this. Maybe with my nephew.…

Rules lawyering

2014-04-24

I have, in the past, been accused of being a rules lawyer or at the very least of participating in rules lawyering. So when I talk about the practice, I like to think that I do so with a point of view that is informed. Rules lawyering is fun. It is fun to bend a ruleset to your whim and to out think your oppenent. It is fun to be the very best by using the rules as they are put down.…

Shadowrun Returns

2014-04-20

I recently finished the Dragonfall expansion of Shadowrun Returns . I haven’t enjoyed a roleplaying experience like that since the first Mass Effect game. The game was so deeply steeped in lore I just completely nerded out. The art was beautiful and the story was engaging and compelling. The combat and level system were good, not great. If you like cyberpunk, and especially if you like Shadowrun, I can’t recommend this game highly enough.…

Interaction

2014-04-20

One of my favorite things about being a GM is when I set the scene and the players just run with it and practically take me out of the conversation loop. I love to see people being creative and I think that’s colored my mood and my opinions about roleplaying systems lately. For the last 3 years I’ve been running 3rd edition D&D , which I feel has been something of a drag to the creative process.…

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.…