I haven't made it for a while, but because someone requested the recipe, here it is ( Read more... )

The Genehack Operation (The Sprawl, 2pm Friday)
The Sprawl is a game of mission-based action in a gritty neon-and-chrome Cyberpunk future. You are the extended assets of vast multinational corporations, operating in the criminal underground, and performing the tasks that those multinationals can’t do, or can’t be seen to, do. Deniable, professional ( Read more... )

Ah, January. A time to look back on failed resolutions of the past and make well-intentioned but soon-abandoned attempts to set new goals. I had four main avenues of gaming in 2013: conventions, Nerd SoCal game days, and regular games ("weekly" Pendragon nights and gothic Stars Without Numbers by Google Hangout). Lets review my gaming resolutions ( Read more... )

When I started doing this annual post in 2010, I posted it on Jan 1st. Finally, it makes its triumphant return to the first day of the year!

( Numbers and lists )

One of my friends posted his top ten for November on Facebook and since I've been listening to a lot of music this month, I felt like following suit ( Read more... )

You've probably seen the Facebook meme where you are given a band and have to answer a few questions about them ( Read more... )

CHVRCHES played at the Wiltern in Los Angeles last night and I was there. I almost wasn't. I'd never been to a Wiltern concert, so after a leisurely dinner at Beer Belly we wandered down to the venue, checked things out, discovered it was seated (odd) and no sooner had we sat down at 9pm or so than the band started. CHVRCHES. They played from just ( Read more... )

Registration for Big Bad Con opened at noon today, I managed to get into everything I wanted, namely:

Friday 3-7: Slave Pits of the Undercity (Dungeon World; Adam Koebel)
Friday 8-12: Running The Dark Zone (The Sprawl)

Saturday 10-2: Running Operation Reservoir (The Regiment: Colonial Marines)
Saturday 3-7: Monster of the Week (John Kim ( Read more... )

I'd previously expressed my excitement both about the games I was going to run, and the games I was going to play at Gateway. I was not disappointed.

Friday
Friday Afternoon: The Lost Temple-City of Xtylos (Dungeon World; Christopher Stone-Bush ( Read more... )

Last week, JiB ran a playtest for his Gateway game Gods Among Us. It was a fun night out at the Happy Jack's studio in Pasadena with good people (JiB, Gina, Rob, Morgan, Will and Megan, who was playing her first RPG), good beer, and a mythic Norse secret mission to avert the coming of Ragnarok.

Here's the recording: Gods Among Us.