This past Thursday night we finally finished playtesting The Bandit Map, the adventure for Blade & Crown that I hope to have out soon. The scenario was pretty fun and this session, the last, involved equal parts silliness and seriousness. … Continue reading
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This Thursday, Real Life intervened again and we were short a player. Had been hoping to finish our playtest of The Bandit Map, the Blade & Crown scenario I’m playtesting. Instead, we played a game that one of the players … Continue reading
This past weekend was yet another convention: Diversicon. It’s a very small con, hovering around 100 people (so it’s smaller than Convergence by near two orders of magnitude). But it can be a lot of fun, with some very interesting … Continue reading
Like a lot of general-purpose SF conventions, I didn’t do much actual gaming at Convergence. There’s a lot of gaming on the 22nd floor, but a) getting there, with the long lines for the elevators, is a major hassle and … Continue reading
WisCon isn’t a gaming-heavy con; it’s primarily about programming and conversations. Still, I managed to get in a bit of gaming, all of it on Sunday: Dominion. We played one nice session of this. As usual, this was a combination … Continue reading
Yesterday was a one-shot game with most of the weekly group members. It was with a GM we don’t usually play with, and a system we don’t usually use, and a genre (horror) that we don’t usually play. The game … Continue reading
Sunday’s game was D&D (Iron Heroes, specifically) in which we were high-level characters fighting our way to save the kingdom. The game basically just consisted of two huge combats: the first again some fire giants, the second against some snake … Continue reading
This was a FATE game, run by John. As per the Kerberos Club setting, we were all strange heroes of a semi-mythic Victorian age. And because we were playing a very light form of FATE (same as Bob’s Friday game), … Continue reading
My Saturday morning game was GURPS Zombies: Fantasy Punk. The setting is early medieval Europe (I wasn’t clear if it was 11th or 12th century CE) with fantasy trappings: elves are largely from the Black Forest, etc. We were a … Continue reading
This was run by the inimitable Bob. At the start, the players were just John and me. Bob ran this using a very light version of FATE; because the rules are so simple, and because all three of us are … Continue reading