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2009 Indie RPG Awards announced!
The results for the 2009 Indie RPG Awards have been posted on the website and are summarized below. There are voter comments and details at the website.
2009 was the eigth year of the Indie RPG Awards, in a changing field. There were close races in all categories this year, with a wide range of registered games!
And the winners are...
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Spirit of the Century campaign wrap-up
I've posted a few times about previous games using the Spirit of the Century rules, collected under my SotC Tag. Recently, though, I've wrapped up my first run of it using the defined setting - the 1920s, playing members of the Century Club. We played about 10 sessions, rotating who GMed. Daniel made an extended blog post about it, along with a ( Read more... ) -
Sad news, but new resource
On a somber note, one of the lead playtesters for the Parlor Larp series died three weeks ago. I was at a game with several people who knew him when they heard.
Because of this, though, J of Shifting Forest Storyworks has released all of the Parlor Larps as freeware. They can all be downloaded in PDF format from the newly re-opened website, ( Read more... ) -
ACNW and other Fall 2009 Convention Reports
Two weekends ago I was at AmberCon NorthWest, which was excellent as usual. The main down side was that I only went for three days this year because of my tough school schedule, so I only played in four games. On the mixed side, I missed my flight back Sunday night, but it meant I got to stay and hang out more with the excellent folk there before ( Read more... ) -
2008 Indie RPG Awards Announced
The Indie RPG Awards have been posted on the website and are summarized below. My apologies for being late on this. They should have been posted concurrent with GenCon on Friday, but a series of technical difficulties delayed it ( Read more... ) -
Voting Open for the Indie RPG Awards - Games of 2008
The voting period for the Indie RPG Awards has officially begun for games released in 2008. After a week of voting, I'll add up the totals and announce the winners in time for Gen Con ( Read more... ) -
Race in RPG and the Alternatives
My theory post, "Who's on Top? -- Social Class in Tabletop RPGs" brought me back to some continuing thoughts on representations of race in RPGs, following up on my other posts under the racism tag.
In particular, I'd like to link to the Race in D&D blog, started by Chris Van Dyke last November after he gave a presentation on that topic for nerd ( Read more... ) -
Birthday Larp Report
So as I had previewed in a recent post -- "LARP Help!" -- I just finished running that larp.- bandits and heroines and kidnapping
- renaissance sort of costumes
- almost all 7th graders but possibly some range on the ages (downwards)
- lots of combat
- in the woods somewhere
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Knutepunkt 2009 Convention Report up
So I finally have my (long!!) convention report posted to my RPG site,
Knutepunkt 2009 Report
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LARP Help!!
Help!
So I've been asked to help organize an outdoor fantasy larp for some kids I know, about a dozen of them around age 11 13. I'd like to do it, but (1) I've never played or organized an outdoor fantasy larp, and (2) I've never done any larps for kids before. My larping has all been theater-style with adults ( Read more... )