Quite soon after Ace of Aces ended, I got into a game of Hansa Teutonica. I’d actually just played my first game of it a week before, and liked it. Hansa Teutonica is a game of building trade routes in … Continue reading
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I got to the con later than I’d hoped, Friday afternoon. Lots of games were already in progress. I found my friend Alan, and we chatted a bit; he’d already been at the con for a few hours. He’d earlier … Continue reading
Con of the North was very exhausting, and vastly entertaining. I’m very sleepy and very happy. More soon…
A while ago, a post on Grognardia got me wondering when I started gaming. Like a lot of folks, I started with Basic D&D, specifically the blue box that had B2: Keep on the Borderlands. Judging by the Acaeum website, … Continue reading
Like a lot of gamers, I have a lot of dice. I even have a set of spares that I keep at home. But I carry my main set with me in a large, purple leather bag. I used to … Continue reading
Ah! No time to write! Sometimes, life just gets the better of you: the regular GM can’t make it, or they haven’t had time to prepare, or half the players are sick, or you need something between campaigns, or you … Continue reading
For Heirs to the Lost World, Chad Davidson created NPC cards: just the right size to fit in Magic: the Gathering card sleeves, and with just enough information to run NPCs in combat. It was obviously a brilliant idea, so … Continue reading
Last time, I related the content of our first Microscope game. Now, some reflections on how it went. There were a few other things that didn’t go totally smoothly: We found that we needed some way of reminding us of … Continue reading
As mentioned in the comments of last post, John, the GM for our main campaign, was sick last week, and so the rest of us played Microscope. We started by talking a bit about how the game works — for … Continue reading
For about as long as I’ve known of its existence, the game Microscope has fascinated me. I love the worldbuilding that it implies, and the collaborative aspect has always been intriguing. So a few weeks ago, I admitted to myself … Continue reading