Seven years ago, I started running a D&D campaign with the brand new D&D 3.0 system, called Broken Chains. I wrote a 90,000 word game world, and designed a campaign arc with a beginning, middle, and end. From the very beginning, it was created to be a finite campaign, with … Continue reading
A friend of mine dropped off a new board game with me tonight. He bought it, but he doesn’t have time to work through the rules and figure out how to play so that he can teach the rest of us, so he’s leaving that to me. I don’t mind. … Continue reading
**Warning** The following post is a lot more rambling than a lot of my other posts. Caveat Lector. Lately, I’ve become enamoured of co-operative world-building for games. As an idea, anyway. I’ve been reading Mortal Coil, and listening to the That’s How We Roll podcasts about building the setting for … Continue reading
So, every year for the past eight or so years, I go down to GenCon and work at the Pagan Publishing booth with Scott Glancy. I’m not affiliated with his company outside of that, but we’re friends, and we have a mutually beneficial arrangement going, so it all works out … Continue reading
Good god, I’ve come to dread that sentence in games. Most of you recognize it, right? The cry of the dedicated roleplayer when a character choice causes problems. “I have to be true to the character.” No matter what the cost. That’s what being a true roleplayer is all about … Continue reading
Now that our Bleeding Alpha Playtest phase is winding down, I want to thank my players for their dedication, willingness to try new things, good feedback, and just being great, creative players. Thanks to Sandy, and Anne Carriere’s iron filing packed snowballs. Thanks to Kieran, and Lucky Firth’s eagerness to … Continue reading
Characters Rowan Aurelian Elaine de la Roche Gerhardt Rothman Legion We rejoin our intrepid heroes outside the Legislature, having followed their now-functioning magical compass to the building after leaving Mad Cowz territory. The compass has stopped working again, and is just spinning in circles*, so they can’t get a good … Continue reading
I got my copy of Trail of Cthulhu this week. It’s a new implementation of the Call of Cthulhu game, using Robin D. Laws’s GUMSHOE system, and it was written by Ken Hite. I like it. Now, I like the original game, too, a whole lot. But in many ways, … Continue reading
Characters Anne Carriere Lucky Firth Christian Manger Paul Roman We pick up back in Assiniboine Forest, just after nightfall, in the killing cold, after killing another ogre. Christian and Paul have a heart-to-heart about how Christian’s a FRIGGIN’ GHOUL! While this is going on, Anne spots shapes moving in the … Continue reading
Characters Rowan Aurelian Elaine de la Roche Gerhardt Rothman Legion We rejoin our heroes in the aftermath of their little excursion into Mad Cowz territory, as they decide that, to speak to someone who can give them the name of the warlock conjuring the shadow spirits, they will need to … Continue reading
