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Welcome!
This little corner of the cosmos is where I record my thoughts on the pursuit of Geekery! A large portion of my ranting and raving will revolve around gaming tabletop RPGs, console and PC games, boardgames as well as fantasy and sci-fi media.
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Memoir '44, Solitaire rules and other variants
After playing several rounds of Memoir '44 online using Vassal, I'll have to qualify my earlier statement. I'll now look to other games, such as Flames of War and Conflict of Heroes when I'm looking for a crunchier World War II wargaming experience. Memoir '44 provides that quick and easy fix of WW II gaming as each game can be played in less than ( Read more... ) -
Rule Zero, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Board Game
I've been on a boardgame kick lately.
I've played a good number games of of Descent: Journeys in the Dark. We've started a campaign using the Road to Legend expansion. We've even created some customized heroes using the Build Your Own Hero Rules up on the Fantasy Flight Games support page. I enjoy the game but damn Descent takes for-frakking- ( Read more... ) -
Burning Blackfyre
Truth be told, I've been re-considering a noble house campaign ever since I started listening to the campaign shenanigans of the Podgecast crew. One of the Podgecasts hosts, Luke, uses Burning Wheel to run a house campaign inspired by George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of books that begins with th "Kingdom the Next Generation" (don' ( Read more... ) -
The Blackfyre Rebellion Revisited
Green Ronin's A Song of Ice and Fire is out on PDF version at the Green Ronin store.
I've always wanted to run a noble house game. I'm toying with the idea of running a campaign set in (an alternate version of) the Blackyfyre Rebellion. The players will be family members and retainers of an up and coming minor noble house, either with ambitions of ( Read more... ) -
Halls of the Mountain King
This weekend I became a Patron of the next Open Design project: Halls of the Mountain King. The book will be either OGL/3rd Edition or 4th Edition. Naturally, I supported the 4E option. I hope this comes out soon enough so I can use it for my MapTool D&D game.
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Age of Might
Tonight, I'm running session #2 of my online D&D 4th Edition campaign dubbed 'Age of Might'. Here is the teaser for the game:
The Age of Might
The last Age ended as the world burned in a storm of corrupt magic, other-worldly invasion and human pride.
The last Age ended with the fall of the Thousand Cities, the Empire of Man, the Empire of Folly.
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That Wizard, Harry
If I told you about I was a fan of Harry the Wizard some of you might think of the other Harry. You know who I'm talking about. Yeah, that stripling who tromps off to Wizard school (Warthogs, was it?) and goes on zany adventures with his friends. Well, I hate to tell you, I'm not really fan of Harry Potter. I'm a fan of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden ( Read more... ) -
Thirteen Bullets - Session 2
I ran a follow-up game to the 'One Shot' Savage Worlds game tonight. We used Skype's free conference calling for voice chat and, WOW, did that make a difference in the pace of the game. Now, I still prefer to use the in-game text chat for some IC chatting as I'm don't really do NPC 'voices' that well in real life ( Read more... ) -
More MapTools! Potential Games
Encouraged by the success of my first attempt at online Gamemastering. I'm thinking of running a mini-series: a story arc running from three to six sessions. Not a full-blown campaign yet but if there is any interest beyond the mini-series I would give a campaign some serious thought ( Read more... )