The notes in the back of Unknown Armies' 2nd Ed rulebook calls Jailbreak 'a convention standard'.  It's easy to see why.  The large number of players means that someone will almost always be doing something, and the characters' different personalities, obsessions and hangups, to borrow a line, "all fit quite nicely together, like furious, ( Read more... )

Loooooong time without an update, I know.  If you've been missing me (aaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha!) you can catch me at GenCon.

What:   I'm running Jailbreak, a classic Unknown Armies scenario.
When:  The evening of the 19th of September, from 7:00pm

Due to Personal Stuff, I only have time for the one session.  There's room for nine players in total, ( Read more... )

Cross-posted to otherspaces.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter was released in 2004, and instantly became a hit.  Batman Began again the following year, making Warner Brothers another mountain of money.  Dexter hit cable TV in 2006, and that's when I knew for sure that something had started swimming around in our collective unconscious.  Why else would we suddenly be ( Read more... )

So Shamus Young has asked his readers which gaming systems they like to use. I can't sign in to his site at work (for some reason), so I'm answering here.

What gaming system did you start with when you were learning the game?

My gaming career kicked off with the D&D Red Box, but I was never really satisfied with it. I'd seen one of the Gold Box ( Read more... )

You know what running that one-shot was like?  Running that one-shot was like putting on your favourite pair of jeans again.  It doesn't matter how nice whatever you were wearing was, it's just so good to find yourself in something so completely comfortable.  It was like coming back home.

Of course, it helps that the scenario was building on two ( Read more... )

This Thursday, in honour of my birthday falling on gaming night, we're going to take a short break from Ars Magica and play some Unknown Armies.

That is all.

Albedo ain't much to look at, I guess.  Just a rock, really - one among millions in this here belt, but it had enough fancy-pants radioactive ore to draw Blue Sun way out into the black.  They rode out, built the dome and had a good go at mining the stuff, but there must not've been enough for 'em, I guess.  Few years later they up and left.

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The War on Weakness begins anew on the 14th.

Be watching. 

A learned commentator once said that the Lightless Jungle* is "not quite a hell you can walk to, but is certainly the next best thing".  Beneath trees so large that the only way to see a whole one is to climb a mountain some distance away, it's full to bursting with venomous animals, carnivorous plants, blind albino gorillas, flesh eating ( Read more... )

I wouldn't say that anyone really knows Dave West.  A lot of people know of him, though.  He's not really what people think of when you say 'crime lord'.  Hasn't been for years, now.  He's like a real crime lord's banker.  You want to pull a heist, buy some wholesale ice, whatever, but don't have the cash?  You talk to Dirty Dave West, he gives you ( Read more... )