Number of Views :278 If you go back and look at the first blog ever, you’ll notice that I have a lot of games on my shelf. What I’d like to do is let my audience choose what game they’d like to hear about. I’ll present my list below, and everyone can vote by [...]
Number of Views :380 How bothered would you be if you arrived at a new game, and the GM informed you that you would be able to choose one of a certain set of race/class combinations? Let me make myself make sense: You show up at a new game, ready with some character concepts floating [...]
Number of Views :303 So, I’m beginning a new one-on-one Star Wars campaign with my wife. Yesterday, I was putting together her first encounter, in which she, a 1st Level Jedi, fights alongside 5 Clone Troopers (CL 2 each) and a Clone Trooper Commander (CL 5) against a squad of 5 Battle Droids (CL 1 [...]
Posted by Mark on Oct 24, 2008 in
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Number of Views :341It’s Friday! Can’t get the group together this week? Just moved to a part of the country where you can’t find a group to save your life? How about a little online play? First up: Urban Dead. This is a free, browser-based MMO. There are no graphics involved at all, just players [...]
Posted by Mark on Oct 23, 2008 in
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Reviews & Culture
Number of Views :239I’m going to start up a new series about once a week which covers reviews of various RPG books I have sitting around on my shelf. But I’m going to work a bit differently than most reviews. The premise is simple. I thumb through the book, just as one would do if [...]
Number of Views :188 I’d like to share a little story but I must, first, begin with a definition: Live Action Role-Playing Game (LARP) ~ A form of role-playing where the participants physically act out their character’s actions. LARP groups have highly varied approaches to rules, costume, degree of physical acting out, participation, focus of [...]