***SPOILER ALERT*** I’m running Tomb of Horrors for this leg of the Storm Point campaign. You may not want to read on if you’re playing the game yourself. ***SPOILER ALERT*** Yeah, I broke down and told the group what adventure we were playing. The combat this past session was extremely … Continue reading
**Potential Spoilers** The Armitage Files is an improvised campaign structure. It uses a number of stock pieces, such as NPCs, organizations, and locations, that are strung together by individual GMs to fit player action. The adventures I create with it may or may not match any other GM’s version of … Continue reading
This has nothing to do with gaming, but I’m planning a trip to Ireland this fall. Tonight, I launched the blog where I’ve posted my itinerary. I will be posting entries leading up to the trip, and hope to get a post up each day of the trip, with a … Continue reading
We just finished playing our latest Armitage Files game, but I need to talk about the last New Centurions game, which we played last Saturday, so I don’t fall too far behind on these things. So, we picked up the storyline a few days after fighting off the dimensional invaders, … Continue reading
Friday night, we wrapped up the necromancer storyline in the Feints & Gambits game. This is, in part, what prompted my last post about being taken out; I wanted to lay the groundwork to be able to explain – both to my players and to other readers of this blog … Continue reading
So, here’s a quote from Your Story: If the damage exceeds the character’s stress track, or occupied boxes “push†the stress off the right side of the stress track, the character is taken out, meaning the character has decisively lost the conflict. His fate is in the hands of the … Continue reading
***SPOILER ALERT*** Two things. First, I’m using a published adventure for this leg of the campaign, but the group doesn’t know what that adventure is. Please don’t tell them if you recognize it. Second, because this is a published adventure, my accounts are going to have spoilers in them. If … Continue reading
I finally had a chance to finish reading the Ashen Stars pdf that I got with the Stellar Nursery preorder. I have to admit, going in, I was hesitant. It’s another GUMSHOE game, which was originally billed very much as a system for mystery games, like police procedurals. And Esoterrorists … Continue reading
**Potential Spoilers** The Armitage Files is an improvised campaign structure. It uses a number of stock pieces, such as NPCs, organizations, and locations, that are strung together by individual GMs to fit player action. The adventures I create with it may or may not match any other GM’s version of … Continue reading
***SPOILER ALERT*** Two things. First, I’m using a published adventure for this leg of the campaign, but the group doesn’t know what that adventure is. Please don’t tell them if you recognize it. Second, because this is a published adventure, my accounts are going to have spoilers in them. If … Continue reading
