My first game of Sunday, and well worth getting up a little early for. I was in one of Heather’s InSpectres games last year, so I was enthusiastic about getting another chance to play. Heather again did a great job … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
Unfortunately, after that disappointing HârnMaster game, this was disappointing, too. I’ve raved about Artemis plenty of times here before. I still think it’s a completely new kind of game, one that we’re still just beginning to explore. And I still … Continue reading
You may know that one of my favorite fantasy RPGs is HârnMaster. I’m not much of a completist, but Hârn is one of the series that I have tried to get a lot of. I ran a long campaign using … Continue reading
After Heirs was my first game to GM: The Dooms that Came to Chaegrae. This game was an experiment in high-powered Blade & Crown. Each character had Traits rated 4, 3, 2 and 1 — considerably higher than the defaults. … Continue reading
A super-busy week at work means that you get four more images of clouds, ready to be turned into great gaming maps! As with previous “clouds for mapping” images, I’m releasing these images into the public domain, but I’d appreciate … Continue reading
As noted, I didn’t go to the Con on Friday, so I missed a bunch of great games. The first one I got to be in was this, on Saturday. It was Chad’s Caravan on the High Plateau scenario. We … Continue reading
Con of the North 2015 is now, sadly, over. It feels like it came up in a rush, then happened just as quickly. Especially true because a cough I thought I was almost done with suddenly started turning into a … Continue reading
Con of the North is this weekend. I still have a fair amount to prepare for “The Dooms that Came to Chaegrae”: Cards describing what different Trait ratings can do (designed, but not printed) Character sheets (characters are basically done, … Continue reading
Go read this post on Go Make Me a Sandwich. It is spot on regarding the deep-rooted problems of sexism in tabletop RPG publishing. In particular, this quote hits me right in the stomach: And I don’t know how to … Continue reading
The weekly group has played Battleground twice recently. It’s been pretty fun! Last time, we played the humans against the goblin army. It came really close — I think in the end, it was down to one unit on each … Continue reading