Save vs. Total Party Kill

My friend Alex discusses Fuck You Design, an interesting response of sorts to my post about negative space in RPGs.

I updated this blog post for the zine Mixed Success, which you should also check out.

You should check out this name generator from Elijah Mills which I discovered on the NSR discord server.

This is a little bit of an experiment.

Jahtima, a new book in my mail via FourRogues.

In a plot twist of sorts, the #TorontOSR has been playing more narrative games of late.

I bought two games that feel like they exist in sharp contrast to one another.

In 1975 Gary Gygax wrote an article describing a simple approach to creating a campaign world over 5 weeks, which you could then expand upon through play: like God intended.

Every so often Nate will pop into the discord we’re both in to chat about his super-high level D&D 5e game: it’s totally bananas and inspiring.

Patrick and Scrap are currently running a Kickstarter for the follow-up adventure to Deep Carbon Observatory, Demon-Bone Sarcophagus, so now seems as good a time as any to talk about their work.

Patrick and Scrap are currently running a Kickstarter for the follow-up adventure to Deep Carbon Observatory, Demon-Bone Sarcophagus, so now seems as good a time as any to talk about their work.

Is Luke Gearing too powerful?

The Ennies are in September?

Kingdom Death is a game where you can be playing spectacularly, and then roll a 1 on a random table and lose your star survivor.

I am wondering if I should set up Kingdom Death and play a campaign.

Is Luke Gearing too powerful?

Played a game of Song of Blades and Heroes today because the D&D Encounters game I was expecting to play wasn’t starting till next week.

Scott Malthouse, the author of Romance of the Perilous Land, started a cute thing on Twitter where he encouraged people to share retro gaming books from Britain with the hashtag #BOSR—British OSR.

Normally I start off with some jab at the Ennies, but this year is too garbage to take cheap shots at anyone, least of all the Teen Choice Awards of the RPG scene.

In 2019 a lot of people were expecting (hoping?)

In these days of social isolation, we must all find ways to pass the time.

Evan and I finished our initial Kill Team campaign.

I used to try and get my awards published before the Ennies announced their winners.

I have a giant farmhouse-style dining table.

Do you feel like one of your things with your adventures is not really explaining what’s up till the end?

I bought the Rad Hack in April of 2017.1 Ben Milton posted one of his videos flipping through the book and I was hooked.

I don’t recall exactly how it came up, but someone asked if the character we were talking to was White.

Last year Magpie games kickstarted their new Powered by the Apocalypse game Zombie World, a game by Brendan Conway and Mark Diaz Truman.

For a little over a year I ran a biweekly OD&D game set in the doomed world of Carcosa.

One of the more interesting 40K games Evan and I played was with my cousin using a mission Evan cooked up: his Navigator Scribeguard (Imperial Guard) against a mix of the recently awoken Blood Mormont Primaris Space Marine chapter and Adeptus Custodes.

I picked up Kill Team Commanders over the weekend, despite my better judgement.

This title sounds extra nerdy because it is extra nerdy, but this is a nerdy hobby and being extra nerdy can sometimes be good.

Now that I am basically a full on war gamer I was happy to see that OSR superstar Emmy Allen’s latest endeavour was a skirmish game.

Are the Ennies good now?

I bought the new edition of Necromunda, Game Workshops miniatures skirmish game about gangs in the 41st millennium.

Evan and I managed to get together again after quite some time to continue playing some Warhammer.

One thing that falls outside the usual discussions of gaming style is the amount of distance any given group or player has towards the game in question—which I think is a shame because I think a giant part of the fun is the distance and, one way or anothe…

When I ran my Carcosa game it was centred around a few “safe” home bases.

I’ve been slow to go through Frost Bitten & Mutilated because I want to read it in print, rather than PDF.

I spent this past weekend at BreakoutCon here in Toronto.

Ross Rifles is a brand new RPG from Dundas West Games that is still in development.

You’ve got your hands on the ashcan of the full game, a preview of Cartel that’s got everything you need to sample the game before it’s released next year. — Mark Diaz Truman, Cartel “Ashcan Edition”, 2015.

My wife’s friend Devlin has been collecting and painting Warhammer miniatures for ages.

I played far fewer RPGs in 2017 than I have in previous years.

Evan managed to kit bash another weird mini before we met to play a couple weekends ago.

The Sword and Board was busy with people playing Warhammer.

Our previous game was over quickly, so we started another game.

The soldiers they could see poking their heads over the ruins in the distance were of as little consequence to the Death Guard as the objective they had been sent to secure.

Causarius, Lord of Contagion, could hear the gun fire before he saw the ship.

The competition for my time and attention (and money) grows fierce as indie publishers and amateur authors continue to push out better books than the big names in RPGs.