Last night, I went over to Unique Gifts and Games for their weekly board game night. I played Small World for the first time, with a couple of cool guys. For those who don’t know, Small World is a board game in which you play a series of fantasy races trying to carve out a [...]
Back in March, Stuart Robertson of Robertson Games wrote a post about painted vs. unpainted miniatures, which got a lot of great comments. iIn the post, he asked who out there uses entirely painted figures with no stand-ins. I wish. My ultimate goal would be to be able to run a weekly game in which [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by the stars. I’ve dreamt of traveling them many times. As many children do, I wished and wanted desperately to be an astronaut! And as with most of us, except a very select few, that doesn’t quite happen. But I figure I can’t be the only one who has these dreams [...]
Previously, I had mentioned splicing genres together to create interesting new settings. I’d like to cover, in detail, some different mashups of various settings and see what we end up with. Today’s entry: Sci-Fi/Super Heroes. Imagine a setting where the Solar system has been fully populated, with not just colonies, but whole cities and metropolises [...]
Having just seen Iron Man 2 yesterday, (Spoiler-free review: better than Iron Man, and doesn’t ever feel like it’s dragging. It incorporates a ton of greater Marvel universe stuff, and you NEED to stick around after the credits) I’ve been thinking about running a mini-campaign in the Marvel universe once I move. I’m a big [...]
This is something I’ve heard discussed by Chatty in the past, and I’m sure a few other RPG Bloggers have done it as well: Mini-Campaigns. I was thinking about the long, drawn out DnD campaigns that have been run by my group over the last couple of years: Points of Light, Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and [...]
Staying on my Savage Worlds kick I’m on at the moment, I was thinking about an awesome Jurassic Park RPG. As some may know, they’re working on a new Jurassic Park comic, and that’s what got me thinking. You would open the mini-campaign by encouraging the players to make a a character who would be [...]
Knowing I’ll be moving soon has gotten me thinking of new D&D campaigns. In my next campaign, do I want to use previously created settings, such as Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance and Midnight, or do I want to make up my own campaign world, giving it the full breadth of originality I can? I’m big [...]
I’ve been re-watching season one of Rome while out to sea. It’s a phenomenal show (not for kids) depicting life in ancient Rome, following the stories of Gaius Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, many other notable historical figures, as well as the lives of a centurion and legionnaire. By the end of season one (spoilers!) Caesar [...]
So, it’s been almost a year now since I wrote the last “Using Sons to Inspire an Adventure” post, covering Eli the Barrow Boy by the Decemberists. There’s another Decemberists song I used in a campaign more than a year back, when we decided to play Forgotten Realms. One of the players told me he [...]
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