This morning I was thinking about my favourite roleplaying games and how this differs from my favourite game settings. To clarify, there are lots of games I like but think their setting lack anything appealing, and on the flip side there are many, many game settings I love but think their mechanics do little to reflect their actual play feel ( Read more... )

So, I've come to the conclusion that I much prefer 'Roll Under' mechanics in RPGs than 'Roll Over'. In otherwords, I feel more comfortable with rolling under a set number (be it skill, skill+attitude, etc.) rather than trying to be a target number set by the GM by rolling the die and adding bonuses ( Read more... )

Although I've been a wargamer for as long as I've roleplayed, I've never really got the hang of painting miniatures. For me the game is on the table, not the wider collecting, painting and design hobby. I suppose the main reason this is so, is due to my general inability to actually paint, a fact that has frustrated me on numerous occassions ( Read more... )

Tonight I kick-off session one of the second playtest of my Lurker in the Labyrinth mini-campaign for Call of Cthulhu. As I was saying to my players, it is exciting to have a story moving out of its more typical alpha state (which is where they normally bog down), into beta - where the gaps are being filled in and the focus is more on the story ( Read more... )

More Cthulhu gaming - two games over Skype, and tomorrow I have D&D ( Read more... )

The madness continues with sessions of D&D, Call of Cthulhu, games of Bushido and even a pre-campaign chat in the mix.

On top of this I've written a couple of other bits of work that will appear here and there on the internet, and have had a bolt of inspiration for another gaming idea...

Madness I say, madness!

A busy week just past for the Bone household, at least in the world of gaming. D&D on Thursday night and Mice & Mystics with the boys on Friday night. This coming week it gets even more hectic with Tuesday wargaming, Thursday D&D and somewhere thereabouts another episode of Mice and Mystics ( Read more... )

After a pretty slow start to 2015, and an unsatisfying Kapcon, I have the bulk of my gaming sorted out for the first six months of the year.

• Regular wargaming every month has resumed, and I’ve had a renewed interest in Bushido.
• The boys and I are about to kick off a weekly session (likely Wednesday night) of Mice & Mystics.
• I have begun a fortnightly ( Read more... )

I never do this, but I thought I'd put up a little work of fiction I wrote back in 09...

I remember when I was young, living on the coast. The sunny days seemed to last an eternity back then and the nights no more than a blink of an eye. That was the time to be here!
Sometimes I wonder if every generation thinks this way - how much simpler it was ( Read more... )

My plan this week is to complete one of the many (many, many, many) half-written rpg 'supplements' I have sitting on my Portable Harddrive.

As such, I'm going to update my blog each day with exactly how much progress I make. This is really more for my own motivation than it is anything else...