Another placeholder - this one for the first session of my Original Sin campaign as well as the resolution of the Monster of the Week campaign I played at an Atlanta Gamers' meetup group along with Greg.

My Lady Blackbird campaign has been over for a while now, but I realized I'd never done a writeup for it ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of planning my next campaign, and it's a lot of work in terms of how to make the system function properly. It's going to be a campaign using Fate Core, where the players will be playing supervillains. I'm pretty much set in terms of theme, and I have a pretty good idea of the plot (well, the parts I'm going to have set up, ( Read more... )

Well, another MattCon is in the books. As usual it was a ton of fun - we got to try out a few new board games, played more than one RPG/storytelling game, and generally had a good time. From a culinary perspective at least, this was the best MattCon ever - the snacks were spot on and Jenni had a stroke of genius in ordering barbecue for everyone ( Read more... )

It's been quite a while since I checked in here - three weeks on a trial will do that, I guess. Last night we got together for some gaming, which was much needed on my end. We started off with a couple of games of Escape, which is always a good time (though I find that I can never sit down while I'm playing it). Then we tried out a short RPG ( Read more... )

The Justus League is losing a member soon - one of the finest gamers, and people, I've ever known. Our Green Lantern is moving across the country to start a new job early next year, where he won't be able to read the rules for our new games as we break them out at the table. Hopefully we can all play some RPGs by post and over Skype once he's all ( Read more... )

This is a few weeks late - I just realized that I never posted about our annual Halloween game this year! In mid-October, I received a pantload of Dungeon Tiles as a result of a Kickstarter I backed earlier this year, and I thought the perfect way to try it out would be to play through the original, AD&D version of Ravenloft. So I dove back into ( Read more... )

Last night we sat down to do some world-building for an upcoming campaign of Mortal Coil. It went really, really well - the only issue is that the world is so rich that the campaign might wind up being longer than I originally planned. I’m going to post the “Theme Document” here, which outlines some of the concepts and rules we came up with, ( Read more... )

Got to try three new games last night, always a plus. Two were board games, plus one RPG. Hanabi was this year's winner of the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year - basically the most prestigious award given out in board gaming, though it doesn't get much respect from our gaming group). It's a cooperative card game where you get a hand of cards, ( Read more... )

So several hours before we had the best worst restaurant experience ever at a not-too-local Denny's last night, we tried out Carolina Death Crawl, a short form RPG by Jason Morningstar, the guy who wrote Fiasco, Durance, and the Shab al-Hiri Roach. As a change of pace from the typical RPG experience, it was a really short session, but it went ( Read more... )