filed in Articles, Conventions, Gaming, Ramblings, Role-Playing Games, Video Games on Aug.30, 2008
I had wanted planned on doing a wrapup of the first day of PAX this year, but it’s three in the morning, and I’m beat. If I have time, I’ll post tomorrow. At worst, I’ll do a full wrapup when I get back home.
As a side note, I did get to meet Rym and Scott [...]
filed in Gaming, Role-Playing Games on Aug.20, 2008
I’ve got multiple gaming groups. Occasionally they merge, but some of us have more interest in particular games than others. On Fridays, a group of four of us are going to be getting together to play a real, honest to Joe Pesci Burning Wheel campaign. To that end, we’ve started building the setting over on [...]
filed in Dresden Files Playtest, Gaming, Role-Playing Games on Aug.12, 2008
We finished up the city creation playtest last night, and it’s a friggin’ blast. The same player who wrote up the first chunk of material is working on a more detailed writeup, but I thought that I’d give y’all my initial thoughts.
The entire process of city creation for the Dresden Files RPG is fun, especially [...]
filed in Dresden Files Playtest, Gaming, Role-Playing Games on Aug.11, 2008
One of the members of our group was kind enough to take the mass of 3×5 index cards that we used to build our Dresdenverse Portland and post the bare bones of our creation session. There isn’t any flavor text added, but all of the Aspects, themes, locations, an personalities are there, or at least [...]
filed in Dresden Files Playtest, Gaming, Role-Playing Games on Aug.05, 2008
We started working on the city creation rules for the Dresden Files RPG last night. When it gets done, I’ll be sure to post it here, for everyone to see. Let me just say that the entire process is immensely fun, although somewhat time consuming. I have a feeling that, in practice, writing up a [...]
filed in Gaming, Role-Playing Games on Aug.04, 2008
So, my group played SotC as a one-shot last night. Rather than going for the standard pulp adventure feel, we did sort of a steampunk/pulp mix. The year was 1857 – during the Indian Revolt – and instead of having fought in the Great War, everyone was a former member of the now-defunct East India [...]
