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Playtesting Showdown
I playtested Seth Ben-Ezra's next game: Showdown. Narayan and I played it on Tuesday night and I sent the 3 hour recording to Seth last night. First time I've playtested a game.
And Showdown is an awesome game. Basically, the game starts with a duel to the death then cuts to a flashback of when the duelists first met. The game proceeds with cut ( Read more... ) -
Aftermath
Well, it's been a busy time since Pheno. My experience of the three day roleplaying game convention had it's up and downs. I got exposed to a very different crowd of roleplayers and roleplaying styles. It was challenging and at times not that much fun. But this has pushed me to reflect on what drives me to play and what I'm looking for. I've never ( Read more... ) -
Games I have and want to play
As a follow-up, these are the games I have on hand that I haven't played. Most of them I haven't read the rules but most of them I've heard are freaking awesome. One day, perhaps, in a room near you.
At the moment, I'm almost ready for some Mountain Witch action. It looks Gooood. -
Games I've played
Here's the games I have and have played. They're roughly in the order I've played them. And pretty much all since I found the RPGMeetup crowd in Canberra ( Read more... ) -
Phenomenon
Off to register for my first big roleplaying convention: Phenomenon. Oddly enough, it's being held about 15 minutes walk from my house. Man, moving to Canberra has been like roleplaying Mecca for me. It was truly what I least expected. -
Amber's 30th
The weekend was a big one. Amber had a big 30th birthday party, which brought down a tribe of friends from Sydney. I think we had four friends stay over on Friday night and eight Saturday. Brilliant fun. Many of my friends have been overseas, in China, Pakistan, France, so it was a real joy to hang with all of them together again. Saturday dinner ( Read more... ) -
Woodworking
Woodwork is frustrating. Not having good tools is annoying because good results are that much harder to achieve. The class is slow. I'm also not sure if I want to bother embarking on the journey of woodwork, collecting the tools and investing all the time and money that's required. I like woodworking, I like making things and I like wooden ( Read more... ) -
Another Dread game
Graham ran a Dread game last night at John's place. There were five players, including me! Yah, I got to play ( Read more... ) -
Burning Empires - Akşam - Infiltration Manoeuvre 6
Played another session of our Burning Akşam game last night. It sure is a slow burn. I'm still finding the mechanics challenging. I think I enjoy Duel of Wits the most, particularly when they're a Big Deal. At other times, I'm still struggling to grasp how to drive the story, how to use my building rolls ( Read more... ) -
Bella weekend
Amber's family visited us on the weekend. Susan, Denis and Gloria on Saturday and Ben, Renee, Bella and Paul on Sunday. We ate plenty and well. Especially yesterday, with this big, homemade, cherry chocolate cake for afternoon tea and takeaway indian for dinner. We watched the World's fastest indian and talked about Japan and babies and all manner ( Read more... )